You can configure the Deep Discovery Director - Network Analytics appliance to create and upload automatic backups of its configuration settings and metadata database to an SFTP server of your choice.
The appliance creates up to five backup files, after which the oldest one is deleted in order to keep the number of backup files at five.

Procedure

  1. From the Deep Discovery Director management console, access the Settings screen.
    Accessing the Settings Screen
  2. Go to System Maintenance → Back Up.
    The Back Up screen appears.
  3. Under Automatic Backups, select Automatically back up to SFTP server.
  4. Type the IP address or FQDN of the SFTP server.
  5. Type the port number.
    Default is port 22.
  6. Type the folder path to use on the SFTP server.
    The folder specified in this step must already exist. If it does not exist, you must first create it on the SFTP server.
  7. Type the user name and password used to log on to the SFTP server.
  8. Specify a backup frequency using the drop-down lists and the clock tool.
  9. Click Save.