Restore the configuration

You can restore your Secure Email Gateway to a configuration that was previously applied. You can do this either from the list of previously applied configurations on the Configuration History tab of the Backup & Restore page, or from a configuration that has been backed up to disk.

  Secure Email Gateway allows you to restore the system to a configuration that previously failed to deploy. For example, you might want to restore a configuration to resolve problems with it, then attempt to re-apply it.

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You can restore the following configuration areas:

Configuration Area Description
Policy Applies or restores all policy configurations defined in the Policy menu.
System Settings Applies or restores configurations defined in System > Configuration. System Settings restore does not include PMM,Peer Gateways and Ethernet settings.
Network Settings Applies or restores peer configurations defined in System > System Settings > Ethernet Settings. This option is unavailable if you are restoring a configuration to a peered Gateway.
PMM Settings Applies or restores configurations defined in System > PMM Settings. To restore PMM Settings only, select PMM Settings and Peer Gateways.
Peer Gateways Applies or restores peer configurations defined in System > Configuration > Peer Gateways. Do not select this option if you are restoring a configuration from a different Gateway. This will result in a loss of the local peer configuration.
Users Applies or restores user account configurations defined in the in the Users menu. The administrator (admin) account is neither archived nor restored.
Custom Reports Applies or restores customized reports created or modified in the in the Reports menu.
TLS Configuration Applies or restores the global TLS configuration defined in System > Encryption > TLS configuration.
Maintenance Settings Applies or restores the scheduling options and configurations used by System > GatewaySettings > Database Optimization.
  You cannot restore Peer Gateway configurations directly from a disk archive. You can however, re-add peers and apply the current configuration to each peer.

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  1. System > Configuration > Backup & Restore. The Backup & Restore page is displayed.

  2. Select the Configuration History tab. Details of the most recently applied configurations are displayed.

      If more than 10 configurations have been applied, you can view older configurations by expanding the Preceding Configurations list.
  3. Select the configuration you want to restore.
  4. In the task panel, click Restore the selected Configuration. The Select Configuration Area To Restore dialog is displayed.
  5. Select the configuration areas you want to restore and click Restore.
  6. After the restore has been completed successfully, review your content security policy settings as well as system settings under the Policy and System menus.
  7. Apply the new configuration.
  1. System > Configuration > Backup & Restore. The Backup & Restore page is displayed.
  2. In the task panel, click Upload Backed up Configuration. The Select Configuration Area To Restore dialog is displayed.
  3. Use the browse button to specify the location of the configuration archive file (.bk).

  4. Select the configuration areas you want to restore and click Restore.

      When the restoration process has completed, the Configuration Restore page indicates the success or failure of the process, and provides a link to the Manage Configurations page.
  5. After the restore has been completed successfully, review your content security policy settings as well as system settings under the Policy and System menus.
  6. Apply the new configuration.
 

Only one administrator can apply a configuration at any one time. Simultaneous attempts to apply configurations will fail.

If Secure Email Gateway is operating in FIPS Mode, you can only restore FIPS-compliant configurations.

FIPS-compliant backups of configurations can also be applied to non-FIPS Gateways if required.

Configuration backup and restore applies only to your system configuration. Held messages, message tracking and reporting data, and Gateway logs can be archived using System Backup and Restore.

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