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Backup and restore
CLI Guide | Forcepoint Appliances | v8.5.x
It is a best practice to backup appliances regularly. Use "create backup schedule" to define an automated backup schedule.
Backup files can be stored locally—on the appliance, or saved to a filestore that you specify.
There are two backup types:
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A full backup saves all appliance settings, as well as configuration and policy information for all active modules. The best practice is to run a full backup on every appliance in your network on a regular basis.
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Components that do not reside on the appliance (like Log Server and Forcepoint Security Manager) should be backed up at approximately the same time that you back up your appliance. When you restore the system, this allows you to restore from a time-synchronized set of backups on all machines.
Restoring from backup
When a backup is restored, all current settings for the appliance or module are erased. The appliance is always restarted after a restore.
Before performing a restore, stop all TRITON Architecture components running off the appliance.
Full appliance restores and module-specific restores require that these conditions are met:
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Before restarting the off-box components, ensure that the system time of all TRITON Architecture component hosts is synchronized. You can then restart the TRITON Architecture components located off the appliance.
 
Warning 
show backup list
Display all available backups in a specified location.
show backup list --location <local|filestore_alias>
 
Usage guidelines
All products
Examples
(view)# show backup list --location local
show backup schedule
Display the configured backup schedule.
show backup schedule
Usage guidelines
All products.
Includes the schedule frequency, the last scheduled backup, the next scheduled backup, and the backup location.
create backup now
Create an appliance backup now.
create backup now --location <local|filestore_alias>
[--desc <description>] --type <full|email|web> --save-path <filepath> [--url <url>] [--auth-required]
 
Usage guidelines
All products.
You can back up files onto the appliance (local) or onto a remote filestore. You can restore from either location.
The optional description of the backup is limited to 18 characters.
Examples
(config)# create backup now --location local --desc full-2018-1-24 --type full
restore backup
Restore the appliance configuration settings saved in the specified backup file.
NOTE: Restoring from tftp servers is not supported.
restore backup [--location <local|filestore_alias>] [--file <file_name>] [--url <backup_url>] [--auth-required] [--no-cert-verification]
 
(Optional) Use with the url parameter to specify whether a password is needed.
(Optional) Used with the url option to ignore SSL certificate checks. Only valid with HTTPS.
Usage guidelines
All products.
create backup schedule
Define a schedule for automatic backups.
create backup schedule --location <local|filestore_alias>
--freq <daily|weekly|monthly>
--day <Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun> --date <integer>
--time <hh:mm> --type <full|web|email>
 
Usage guidelines
All products.
Examples
(config)# create backup schedule --location local --freq weekly --day Mon --time 01:30
cancel backup schedule
Cancel all schedule backups.
cancel backup schedule
Usage guidelines
All products.
delete backup
Delete any or all backup files stored locally on the appliance.
delete backup [--file <file_name|all>]
 
Usage guidelines
All products.
Examples
Examples with file option:
(config)# delete backup --file all
Successfully deleted backup file(s)
 
(config)# delete backup --file backupfile123.bak
Successfully deleted backup file(s)
Example without file option:
(config)# delete backup
Backup Selection:
1) backupfile123.bak:
Description:
Time : 2016-11-18_12:21
2) backupfile456.bak:
Description:
Time : 2016-11-18_12:20
Please make a selection (enter 'q' to quit): 1
Successfully deleted backup file(s).

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