Symantec Security 5600 Series, Security 5400 Series,Clientless VPN 4400 Series, Administration Manual

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98 Maintaining your security gateway
Backing up and restoring configurations
Related information
For further information related to this topic, see the following:
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“Features tab” on page 743
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“Making system changes with the System Setup Wizard” on page 104
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“Advanced mail actions” on page 446
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“Enabling SSH for command-line access to the appliance” on page 74
Backing up and restoring configurations
You should back up your security gateway’s configuration on a regular basis, and particularly prior to
making and activating major changes. This lets you restore the previous configuration if something is
wrong with the new configuration.
Note: A backup password is required to restore the configuration.
If you are upgrading from a previous version of the security gateway, you are instructed to back up and
restore your configurations as part of the upgrade process. For backup and restore details that are
specific to upgrading the security gateway, see the upgrade chapter of the
Symantec Gateway Security
5000 Series v3.0 Installation Guide .
You can backup the configuration of one security gateway and restore it on another security gateway
as a way to move configurations between appliances. Another method of sharing configurations
between security gateways is by associating the security gateways with each other in a cluster.
Keep the following requirements in mind when you plan to back up and restore configurations:
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To perform a backup, your administrator account must have backup privileges. To restore a
configuration, you must have restore privileges.
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You can only back up the active configuration. Any changes that have not been saved and activated
are not included in the backup.
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If you are restoring a configuration to a different security gateway, the target machine security
gateway must have the same, or more interfaces, than the original security gateway.
You can use following procedures to back up and restore configurations:
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Backing up configuration files from the SGMI
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Restoring security gateway configuration files from the SGMI
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Using command-line utilities to perform a local or remote backup
Related information
For further information related to this topic, see the following:
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“About clustering” on page 509
Backing up configuration files from the SGMI
Before you backup your configuration, save and activate your changes.
The following parts of the security gateway configuration are not restored as part of the restore
operation. You need to recreate these items following a backup and restore operation:
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Administrator password
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Cluster associations
These are the cluster name, heartbeat interface, and member information.