In today’s digital landscape, maintaining a reliable backup of your system configurations is crucial for ensuring data integrity and quick recovery from unexpected incidents. Leveraging FortiWeb’s CLI interface offers a streamlined way to back up your appliance configuration to a TFTP server.
Understanding the Backup Command
The backup cli-config command allows FortiWeb users to manually transfer configuration files. This method focuses on settings configurations and does not include other files like error pages, WSDL files, or vulnerability scan settings. For those, a comprehensive backup approach via TFTP or FTP/SFTP is advisable. Refer to the backup full-config or system backup for more details.
Note: To execute this command, ensure your admin account has either w or rw permission to the mntgrp area.
Steps to Execute the Backup Command
- Determine Backup Filename: Select an appropriate file name for the backup. This will help in easy identification and retrieval.
- Identify TFTP Server IP: Input the IP address of the TFTP server where the configuration will be stored.
- Optional Encryption: Decide whether to encrypt the backup file with a password. If chosen, ensure you safely store this password as it will be necessary for file restoration.
- Command Execution: Input the command in the following syntax to execute the backup:
execute backup cli-config tftp
Example
Consider a scenario where we want to backup the system configuration into a file called fweb.zip on a TFTP server located at 192.0.2.23, without password encryption:
execute backup cli-config tftp fweb.zip 192.0.2.23
Key Considerations
- If your FortiWeb configuration includes specific files or settings, consider using full backup options through TFTP or FTP/SFTP.
- Unencrypted files will have a .zip extension, so always assess the security needs beforehand.
- If you decide to use password encryption, remember to store the password securely. Loss of the password will make the backup file unusable.
Related Topics
- See backup full-config for comprehensive security backups.
- Learn about restoration in the restore config documentation.
Ensuring regular backups with clear recovery procedures is a fundamental step towards resilient and secure network management. Using the above steps, you can efficiently manage and protect your FortiWeb configuration settings.
For further reading and detailed information, visit FortiWeb’s CLI reference at FortiWeb CLI Reference.