2. On the Configuration > System > Restore page, click Browse. On your system, navigate
to the manually downloaded configuration archive file, or the configuration archive file that you
have downloaded from your automatic upload FTP server.
The path and filename of the backup file are displayed in the Location text box.
3. Click Restore.
The progress of the restore operation is displayed in the Status panel.
Please observe the following backup and restore considerations:
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Appliance backups do not include network settings.
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Report data for the Management Appliance should be backed up regularly to protect against
the possibility of an appliance failure. Report data is restored through optional steps in the
setup wizard for configuring a new Management Appliance. When selected, you can retrieve
the data from an FTP location, and download it to the new appliance.
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When setting up a replacement Management Appliance, all Web Appliances that were previously
joined to it must first be reverted to standalone mode, then joined to the new Management
Appliance.
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The configuration backups do not include FTP, Active Directory, or eDirectory passwords. To
ensure that these connections are properly configured, they are disabled after a restore
operation, so you must re-enter your usernames and passwords for these connections and
re-enable FTP and directory services synchronization on the System: Backup, System:
Active Directory, and System: eDirectory pages.
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You cannot restore system configuration data made from a Management Appliance to a Web
Appliance and vice versa.
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You can only restore from a backup that was made under the same major.minor release. For
instance, you could restore a version 3.2.2.1 appliance from a backup made under version
3.2.1. But you could not restore that same appliance from a backup made under version 3.1.3.
Related concepts
Replacing Hardware Appliances with Virtual Appliances
on page 22
on page 114
on page 123
on page 128
Related tasks
on page 120
on page 121
4.4.5 Active Directory
Use the Configuration > System > Active Directory page to configure access to your
server, which allows the appliance to use Active Directory user and group information.
Important: It is essential that the time on your Active Directory server is synchronized with the
time on your appliance. We suggest that you use the network time protocol on your Active Directory
server with
0.sophos.pool.ntp.org
as the NTP server, which is the NTP server pool used
by the appliance. If you use a different NTP server for your Active Directory server, you must
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