Cisco Cisco FirePOWER Appliance 8390
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FireSIGHT System User Guide
Chapter 57 Using Backup and Restore
Creating Backup Profiles
Step 3
In the
Name
field, type a name for the backup file. You can use alphanumeric characters, punctuation,
and spaces.
Step 4
On Defense Centers, you have two further options:
•
To archive the configuration, select
Back Up Configuration
.
•
To archive the entire event database, select
Back Up Events
.
Step 5
Optionally, to be notified when the backup is complete, select the
Email when complete
check box and type
your email address in the accompanying text box.
Note
To receive email notifications, you must configure a relay host as described in
.
Step 6
Optionally, on Defense Centers, to use secure copy (
SCP
) to copy the backup archive to a different
machine, select the
Copy when complete
check box, then type the following information in the
accompanying text boxes:
•
in the
Host
field, the hostname or IP address of the machine where you want to copy the backup
•
in the
Path
field, the path to the directory where you want to copy the backup
•
in the
User
field, the user name you want to use to log into the remote machine
•
in the
Password
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
copy the contents of the
SSH Public Key
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.
temporary files are not stored on the remote server when this option is selected.
Tip
Cisco recommends that you periodically save backups to a remote location so the appliance can be
restored in case of system failure.
restored in case of system failure.
Step 7
You have the following options:
•
To save the backup file to the appliance, click
Start Backup
.
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
information about restoring a backup file, see
.
•
To save this configuration as a backup profile that you can use later, click
Save As New
.
You can modify or delete the backup profile by selecting
System > Tools > Backup/Restore
, then
clicking
Backup Profiles
. See
for more information.
Creating Backup Profiles
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