Back up a Firewall Threat Defense Device from Cloud-delivered Firewall Management Center

Before you begin

Ensure that any firewall located between the Firewall Threat Defense and Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center is configured to allow outbound HTTPS traffic from the Firewall Threat Defense to the Security Cloud Control host.

Ensure that you read and understand the requirements and guidelines. Do not skip any steps or ignore security concerns. Careful planning and preparation can help you avoid missteps.

Procedure

Step 1

Step 2

Under Products, click Firewall.

Step 3

From the Security Cloud Control menu, navigate Administration > Firewall Management Center to open the Integrations page.

Select Cloud-Delivered FMC and in the Management pane, click Devices to navigate to the Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center user interface.
Select Administration > Advanced > Backup & Restore

For an existing device backup record, the Device backup page displays the device name, backup file name, device model, device version, and the backup file size.

Step 4

Click Create device backup.

Step 5

In the Configure backup tab, select one or more Firewall Threat Defense devices in Select devices to backup.

You can filter the list based on the device groups, or device type—Standalone, High Availability, and Cluster. For clustering, choose the cluster. You cannot perform backups on individual nodes.

Note	If the device name has special characters other than hyphen, period, and underscore, those special characters will be replaced with an underscore.

Step 6

Click Next to view the summary of your selections.

Step 7

Click Start backup to start the on-demand backup.

Step 8

Monitor the progress under Tasks in the Notifications pane.

The notifications will display one consolidated entry per backup action.
To view detailed information for each of the devices being backed up, click Details.
In the Device backup information dialog, you can monitor the backup progress at granular level.
For cluster backup, you can view node-wise backup progress.
To download the backup report in PDF format, click Download report.