F-SECURE POLICY MANAGER 7.0 -, Administrator'S Manual

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Maintaining F-Secure Policy Manager Server
7.1 Overview
F-Secure Policy Manager Server can be maintained by routinely backing
up and restoring the console data in the Server.
7.2 Backing Up & Restoring F-Secure Policy Manager
Console Data
It is highly recommended that you back up the most important
management information regularly. At a minimum, back up the entire
fsa\domains directory of the communication directory. The communication
directory is normally located under the F-Secure Policy Manager Server
installation directory under
commdir\ . This directory contains both the
policy domain structure and all saved policy data.
It is also possible to back up the entire repository. By doing so, you will be
able to restore not only the policy domain structure, but also the alerts,
host statistics, and installation operations. You will also be able to quickly
restore policy files. When you only back up the
fsa\domains directory, you
must distribute the policies afterwards. The disadvantage of backing up
the entire repository is that there can be tens of times more data than in
the
fsa\domains directory. Another disadvantage is that F-Secure Policy
Manager Server must be stopped before doing the full backup.
Before backing up the fsa\domains directory, make sure that no
F-Secure Policy Manager Console sessions are open.