Performing backup and restore procedures when the policy source is a Forcepoint appliance

If the deployment includes an appliance configured as a Full policy source, complete the following steps to do a full system backup:

Steps

  1. Before you begin, make sure that all components on and off the policy source appliance are working as expected. Restart services, if needed.
  2. Back up each Forcepoint appliance in the following order:
    1. Full policy source
    2. User directory and filtering
    3. Filtering only

    Use the appliance CLI to run an immediate backup or schedule backups at regular intervals. See Running the appliance backup utility.

  3. Use the Backup Utility to back up all off-appliance (software only) components. You can either run an immediate backup, or schedule backups to coincide with appliance scheduled backups. See Running the Backup Utility on Windows or Linux.

Next steps

After completing this process, you have a time-compatible set of backups on all machines hosting Forcepoint Web, Data, and Email protection components in the network.