As the Virtual Firewall Service is intended as a self-managed service, Cybera does not perform any backup of a member’s firewall.
In a worst-case scenario, we have identified some failure conditions that would require us to restore your firewall from a backup (
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To avoid lengthy downtime, we encourage you to backup your firewall on a regular basis. To do this, we recommend you:
Make a backup after each configuration change;
Have an available backup stored outside of the Rapid Access Cloud.
Both Palo Alto and FortiGate firewall users can use the firewall Graphical User Interface to perform backups:
For Palo Alto firewall users, see: Palo Alto configuration backup
For FortiGate firewall users, see: FortiGate configuration backup
To perform a backup of your firewall, you can also see the sections below and follow one of the methods described within.
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We discourage taking snapshots from the Horizon dashboard as a backup practice, for the time it takes to establish, and for the resources it needs to perform and store, in addition to performance issues after recovery. |
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