Backing Up and Restoring

Best Practices:

Step

Instructions

1

Before the upgrade:

  • Save a snapshot of your source system.

    This backs up the entire configuration.

  • Save a backup of your source system.

    This file lets you extract the most important configuration easily.

  • Collect the CPinfo file from your source system (see sk92739).

    This file lets you see the most important configuration easily with the DiagnosticsView tool (see sk125092).

2

Immediately after the Pre-Upgrade Verifier (PUV) finishes successfully and does not show you further suggestions:

  • Save a second snapshot of your source system.

  • Save a second backup of your source system.

  • Collect a second CPinfo file from your source system.

3

Transfer the CPinfo file, snapshot, backup files, and exported database files to external storage devices.

Make sure to transfer the files in the binary mode.

For more information, see:

  1. sk108902: Best Practices - Backup on Gaia OS

  2. The R81 Scalable Platforms Gaia Administration Guide > Chapter Maintenance

  3. The Gaia Administration Guide for your Management Server version > > Chapter Maintenance

  4. The Multi-Domain Security Management Administration Guide for your current version > Chapter Command Line Reference > Section mds_backup

  5. The CLI Reference Guide for your Management Server version - the "migrate" command

  6. sk110173: How to migrate the events database from SmartEvent server R7x to SmartEvent R80 and above server.

  7. sk100395: How to backup and restore VSX gateway.

To back up a Security Management Server:

Operating System

Backup Recommendations

Gaia

  1. Take the Gaia snapshot.

  2. Collect the backup with the migrate export command.

Linux

Collect the backup with the migrate export command.

To back up a Multi-Domain Server:

Operating System

Backup Recommendations

Gaia

  1. Take the Gaia snapshot.

  2. Collect the full backup with the mds_backup command.

Linux

Collect the full backup with the mds_backup command.

To back up a Chassis:

Operating System

Backup Recommendations

Operating System

Backup Recommendations

Gaia

Take the Gaia snapshot.

See the R81 Scalable Platforms Gaia Administration Guide.

To back up a VSX environment:

Follow sk100395: How to backup and restore VSX gateway.