Backing Up or Restoring a Configuration Parent topic

You can back up or restore certain Deep Discovery Web Inspector configuration settings by exporting or importing those settings using the management console.
Trend Micro recommends exporting your settings to:
  • Keep a backup
    If Deep Discovery Web Inspector cannot recover from a critical problem, import your configuration backup after restoring the device to automatically implement the pre-failure configuration.
    Or you can create a backup on a running appliance before making changes to the configuration. Having a backup provides you with the option of quickly and conveniently reverting to the original settings saved in the backup at a later time.
  • Replicate settings across several devices
    If you have several devices on your network, you do not need to separately configure most settings. You can replicate a configuration across several Deep Discovery Web Inspector appliances by restoring the configuration file into each appliance.
Important
Important
Deep Discovery Web Inspector only supports restoring configurations from other Deep Discovery Web Inspector appliances running the same version. When restoring different versions, Deep Discovery Web Inspector now only supports restoring the Deep Discovery Web Inspector 2.2 to the Deep Discovery Web Inspector 2.5 version.
When exporting/importing your settings, the database is locked. Therefore, all Deep Discovery Web Inspector actions that depend on database access will not function.
Trend Micro recommends:
  • Backing up the current configuration before each import operation.
  • Performing the operation when Deep Discovery Web Inspector is idle. Importing and exporting affects Deep Discovery Web Inspector performance.
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