Requirements for Backup and Restore

Backup and restore have the following requirements:

Model Requirements: Backup

You can back up:

  • Threat Defense standalone devices, native instances, container instances, HA pairs, and clusters

  • Threat Defense Virtual for VMware devices, either standalone or HA pairs, and clusters

Backup is not supported for:

  • Threat Defense Virtual implementations other than for VMware

If you must replace a device where backup and restore is not supported, you must manually recreate device-specific configurations.

Model Requirements: Restore

A replacement managed device must be the same model as the one you are replacing, with the same number of network modules and same type and number of physical interfaces.

Version Requirements

As the first step in any backup, note the patch level. To restore a backup, the old and the new appliance must be running the same Firewall version, including patches.

License Requirements

Address licensing or orphan entitlement concerns as described in the best practices and procedures. If you notice licensing conflicts, contact Cisco TAC.