Cisco Cisco Firepower Management Center 4000

In the 

 field, type a name for the backup file. You can use alphanumeric characters, punctuation, 

and spaces.

On Defense Centers, you have two further options:

To archive the configuration, select 

. 

To archive the entire event database, select 

.

Optionally, to be notified when the backup is complete, select the 

 check box and type 

your email address in the accompanying text box.

To receive email notifications, you must configure a relay host as described in 

.

Optionally, on Defense Centers, to use secure copy (

SCP

) to copy the backup archive to a different 

machine, select the 

 check box, then type the following information in the 

accompanying text boxes:

in the 

 field, the hostname or IP address of the machine where you want to copy the backup

in the 

 field, the path to the directory where you want to copy the backup

in the 

 field, the user name you want to use to log into the remote machine

in the 

 field, the password for that user name

 

If you prefer to access your remote machine with an SSH public key instead of a password, you must 
copy the contents of the 

 field to the specified user’s 

authorized_keys

 file on that 

machine.

With this option cleared, the system stores temporary files used during the backup on the remote server; 
temporary files are not stored on the remote server when this option is selected.

Cisco recommends that you periodically save backups to a remote location so the appliance can be 
restored in case of system failure.

You have the following options:

To save the backup file to the appliance, click 

. 

The backup file is saved in the 

/var/sf/backup

 directory. On Defense Centers, you can direct the 

backup file to a remote location; see 

When the backup process is complete, you can view the file on the Restoration Database page. For 
information about restoring a backup file, see 

.

To save this configuration as a backup profile that you can use later, click 

.

You can modify or delete the backup profile by selecting 

, then 

clicking 

. See 

 for more information.

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