Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000

See 

 for information about how to restore a 

backup file to the appliance.

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To view and use existing system backups, go to the Backup Management page. You should periodically 
save a backup file that contains all of the configuration files required to restore the appliance, in addition 
to event and packet data. You may also want to back up the system when testing configuration changes 
so that you can revert to a saved configuration if needed. Note that you cannot include captured files in 
the backup file. You can choose to save the backup file on the appliance or on your local computer. 

You cannot create a backup file if your appliance does not have enough disk space; backups may fail if 
the backup process uses more than 85% of available disk space. If necessary, delete old backup files, 
transfer old backup files off the appliance, or use remote storage.

As an alternative, or if your backup file is larger than 4GB, copy it via SCP to a remote host. Uploading 
a backup from your local computer does not work on backup files larger than 4GB because web browsers 
do not support uploading files that large. On Defense Centers, the backup file can be saved to a remote 
location; see 

 for more information.

While your backup task is collecting discovery events, data correlation is temporarily suspended.

If you perform a backup, then delete reviewed intrusion events, your backup restores the deleted 
intrusion events but does not restore their reviewed status. You view those restored intrusion events 
under Intrusion Events, not under Reviewed Events. See 

. 

If you restore a backup that contains intrusion event data on an appliance that already contains that data, 
duplicate events are created. To avoid this, restore intrusion event backups only on appliances without 
prior intrusion event data.

If you configured any interface associations with security zones, these associations are not backed up. 
You must reconfigure them after you restore. For more information, see 

.

When you back up your managed device from the device itself, you back up the configuration only. Use 
the Defense Center that manages the physical device to perform a complete backup.

Admin/Maint

Select 

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The Backup Management page appears.

Click 

 or 

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The Create Backup page appears.