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Cisco IronPort AsyncOS 8.0 for Security Management User Guide
Chapter 13 Common Administrative Tasks
Before You Begin
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Understand the information in
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Save a copy of the configuration file from your source appliance to a location that you can reach
from the target appliance. See
from the target appliance. See
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You may need to edit the configuration file before importing it into the new appliance. For example,
change interface IP addresses to ensure that they are unique on the network, or make the interface
names on the new appliance match the corresponding interface names on the old appliance.
change interface IP addresses to ensure that they are unique on the network, or make the interface
names on the new appliance match the corresponding interface names on the old appliance.
Procedure
Step 1
Run the System Setup Wizard on the new appliance.
Step 2
Configure the appliance or import a configuration file.
Step 3
Login, as administrator, to an SSH session.
Step 4
At the command prompt, type backupconfig and press Enter.
Choose the operation you want to perform:
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View—Allows you to view the scheduled backups
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Verify—Verifies whether the backup can be scheduled to a remote machine.
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Schedule—Allows you to schedule a backup to an appliance.
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Cancel—Cancels a scheduled backup.
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Status—Allows you to view the status of the ongoing back up in progress.
Step 5
Type Schedule and press Enter.
Step 6
Type the IP address and name of the target Security Management appliance.
The Security Management appliance now verifies the existence of the target machine, and if the target
machine has enough space to accept the data.
machine has enough space to accept the data.
It is possible to transfer data between Security Management appliances that are different sizes, but, the
new appliance must have the same size allocations or greater. If the space on the target machine is not
sufficient, the following error message is generated “Backup cannot be scheduled. Reason: There is
not enough space for isq, tracking, reporting, slbl. Please increase disk allocation for these services
on the target machine”
new appliance must have the same size allocations or greater. If the space on the target machine is not
sufficient, the following error message is generated “Backup cannot be scheduled. Reason: There is
not enough space for isq, tracking, reporting, slbl. Please increase disk allocation for these services
on the target machine”
and data is not transferred.
Once the target machine is verified, the following choices appear on the console:
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1. Setup Reoccurring Backup—allows you schedule a periodic backup.
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2. Schedule a Single backup—allows you to schedule a single backups.
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3. Start a Single Backup Now—allows you to initiate an immediate backup.
Step 7
Type 3 and press Enter.
The backup process begins, and data instantly starts transferring from the source machine to the target
machine. After an immediate backup has started, the following message can be seen:
machine. After an immediate backup has started, the following message can be seen:
“Backup has been
initiated and will begin in a few seconds.”
Step 8
Suspend all data transfer between the source appliance and the new target appliance by typing the
suspendtransfers command at the command line prompt.
suspendtransfers command at the command line prompt.
The suspendtransfers command stops the older source Security Management appliance from receiving
any data.
any data.