Making a Backup Appliance the Primary Appliance

If you are upgrading appliance hardware, or if you need to switch appliances for any other reason, use this procedure.

Before you begin

Review the information in Backing Up Security Management Appliance Data.

Procedure

Step 1

Save a copy of the configuration file from your old/primary/source appliance to a location that you can reach from the new appliance. See Saving and Importing Configuration Settings.

Step 2

Run the System Setup Wizard on the new/backup/target appliance.

Step 3

Meet the requirements in Restrictions and Requirements for Backups.

Step 4

Run a backup from the old/primary/source appliance. See instructions at Starting an Immediate Backup.

Step 5

Wait for the backup to complete.

Step 6

Run the suspendtransfers and suspend commands on the old/primary/source appliance.

Step 7

Run a second backup to transfer last-minute data from the old/primary/source to the new/backup/target appliance.

Step 8

Import the configuration file into the new/backup/target appliance.

Step 9

Run the resumetransfers and resume commands on the new/backup/target appliance.

Do NOT run this command on the old/original primary/source appliance.

Step 10

Establish the connection between the new/backup/target appliance and the managed email and web security appliances:

Step 11

  1. [New Web Interface Only] On the Security Management appliance, click to load the legacy web interface.

  2. Select Management Appliance > Centralized Services > Security Appliances.

  3. Click an appliance name.

  4. Click the Establish Connection button.

  5. Click Test Connection.

  6. Return to the list of appliances.

  7. Repeat for each managed appliance.

Step 12

Verify that the new/target appliance is now functioning as the primary appliance:

Select Management Appliance > Centralized Services > System Status and check the status of data transfers.