4.13. Backup and restore

You can perform backup and restore using the tabs System → Backup and System → Restore.

Create a backup file.

In any case you can choose what you want to backup and what you want to restore. Each backup file is encrypted with AES-256 with an AES key derived from a passphrase you choose. A backup file may contain

• the appliance configuration files contained in /etc. This also contains the configuration sets,
• the database encryption key,
• the SSL certificate,
• the database.

At the moment only things that can be restored are backed up. There is no way to backup e.g. log files.

You may also perform scheduled automatic backups. Those backups are automatically stored to a Windows share on your file server.

Restore a backup file without the database.

In case of restore a backup file is uploaded, the encryption passphrase is passed and the appliance unpacks the backup file. It then determines what is contained in the backup file. In the example in figure Restore a backup file without the database. the backup file contains everything except the database. Now you can choose which of the contained components you want to restore.