Safeguard for Privileged Passwords allows you to save a selected backup file in a location on your computer.
To download the backup file
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Note: Safeguard for Privileged Passwords copies the backup file; it does not remove the backup from the list displayed on the Backup and Restore page. |
Safeguard for Privileged Passwords allows you to retrieve a backup file from a file location and add it to the Safeguard for Privileged Passwords Backup and Restore page list on the appliance.
To upload a backup file
Safeguard for Privileged Passwords allows you to restore the data on your appliance with data from a selected backup. Safeguard for Privileged Passwords does not restore the appliance IP address, NTP settings or the DNS settings. To verify that these settings are correct after a restore, go to Settings | Appliance Information.
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Caution: If you restore a backup that is older than the Maximum Password Age set in the Login Control settings, all user accounts (including the bootstrap administrator) will be disabled and you will have to reset all of the user account passwords. If your bootstrap administrator's password is locked out, you can reset it from the recovery kiosk. For more information, see Admin password reset. |
An Appliance Administrator can restore backups as far back as Safeguard for Privileged Passwords version 2.2.0.6958. Only the data is restored; the running version is not changed.
If the administrator attempts to restore a version earlier than 2.2.0.6958, a message like the following displays: Restore failed because the backup version '[version]' is older than the minimum supported version '2.2.0.6958' for restore.
You cannot restore a backup from a version newer than the one running on the appliance. The restore will fail and a message like the following displays: Restore failed because backup version [version] is newer then the one currently running [version].
The backup version and the running version display in the Activity Center logs that are generated when Safeguard starts, completes, or fails a restore.
To restore the Safeguard for Privileged Passwords appliance from a selected backup
Safeguard for Privileged Passwords automatically restarts the appliance, if necessary.
After restoring from backup verify that the following are set correctly.
If you are using the embedded sessions module, check the archive server in the session archive settings. If necessary, set the correct archive server. For more information, see Assigning an archive server to an appliance.
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Caution: After a restore, requesters, approvers, and reviewers will not have access to any access request workflow events that were in process at the time of the backup. The Activity Center displays those workflow events as incomplete. |
Safeguard for Privileged Passwords allows you to store backup files on an external archive server.
To archive a backup file
In the Archive Servers selection dialog, choose an archive server.
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NOTE: You can add an archive server from the Archive Servers selection dialog by clicking the |
Safeguard for Privileged Passwords copies the backup file to the archive server.
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