Backing Up and Restoring

Best Practices:

Step	Description
1	Save a snapshot and a backup of your source system as the first step of an upgrade.
2	Save a second snapshot and a backup immediately after the Pre-Upgrade Verifier successfully completes with no further suggestions.
3	Transfer the snapshot, backup files, and exported database files to external storage devices. Make sure to transfer the files in the binary mode.

Important notes about backing up and restoring in Management High Availability environment:

• To back up and restore a consistent environment, make sure to collect and restore the backups and snapshots from all servers in the High Availability environment at the same time. (This does not apply to Multi-Domain Log Servers.)
• Make sure other administrators do not make changes in SmartConsole until the backup operation is completed.

For more information:

• About Gaia Backup and Gaia Snapshot, see the R80.10 Gaia Administration Guide.
• About the migrate export and migrate import commands, see the R80.10 CLI Reference Guide.
• About the mds_backup and mds_restore commands, see the R80.10 Multi-Domain Security Management Administration Guide.
• About Virtual Machine Snapshots, see the vendor documentation.

For more information, see:

1. sk108902: Best Practices - Backup on Gaia OS.
2. Gaia Administration Guide (see the Documentation section in the Home Page SK for your current version).
3. sk54100: How to back up your system on SecurePlatform.
4. SecurePlatform Administration Guide (see the Documentation section in the Home Page SK for your current version).
5. Multi-Domain Security Management Administration Guide (see the Documentation section in the Home Page SK for your current version) - Chapter Multi-Domain Management Commands and Utilities - Section Command Line Reference - Sub-Section mds_backup.
6. Command Line Interface Reference Guide (R77 versions, R80.20) - see the migrate command.
7. sk110173: How to migrate the events database from SmartEvent server R7x to SmartEvent R80 and above server.
8. sk100395: How to backup and restore VSX gateway.

To back up a Security Management Server:

Operating System	Backup Recommendations
Gaia	Take the Gaia snapshot. Collect the backup with the migrate export command.
SecurePlatform	Take the SecurePlatform snapshot. Collect the backup with the migrate export command.
Linux	Collect the backup with the migrate export command.
Windows	Collect the backup with the migrate export command.

To back up a Multi-Domain Server:

Operating System	Backup Recommendations
Gaia	Take the Gaia snapshot. Collect the full backup with the mds_backup command.
SecurePlatform	Take the SecurePlatform snapshot. Collect the full backup with the mds_backup command.
Linux	Collect the full backup with the mds_backup command.

To back up a Security Gateway or a Cluster Member:

Operating System	Backup Recommendations
Gaia	Take the Gaia snapshot.

To back up a VSX environment:

Follow sk100395: How to backup and restore VSX gateway.