Back up an appliance

A backup file saves the configuration settings and management data for your appliance. You can recover from a catastrophic failure by restoring your appliance from the backup file. For more information, see About backing up the appliance.

You can also create backup scripts with REST API calls. See the Insight Control Server Provisioning Administrator Guide chapter on Backing up and restoring your appliance for complete details.

Prerequisites

Minimum required privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Backup administrator
You have completed all the best practices for backing up an appliance.

Backing up an appliance

From the main menu, select Settings and do one of the following:
- Click Create backup in the Backup panel.
- Click Backup on the Settings screen, and then select Actions→Create backup.
While the backup file is being created, a progress bar appears in the Overview pane.

Wait for the backup file creation to complete.
Optionally, click the Create backup notification banner for more information and the name of the backup file, which has the format:

appliance-host-name_backup_yyyy-mm-dd_hhmmss.bkp
Verify that the backup file was created correctly. The backup file name should reflect the current date and time.
After the backup file is created, select Actions→Download backup to download the backup file from the appliance.
Save the backup file to an external location for safekeeping.

Do not store it on the appliance.

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