About Backup and Restore
The ability to recover from a disaster is an essential part of any system maintenance plan. As part of your disaster recovery plan, we recommend that you perform periodic backups.
You can use the FMC to back up itself and the 7000/8000 series devices it manages. You can also use the 7000/8000 series local GUI to back up an individual device.
![]() Note |
Especially before you upgrade, we strongly recommend you back up to a remote location and verify transfer success. When you upgrade an appliance, it purges locally stored backups. For more information, see Remote Storage Management. |
The following table summarizes Firepower backup capabilities.
Platform | Backed Up Data | Save Backup To |
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Firepower Management Center |
Any of:
In a multidomain deployment you cannot back up only events. You must also back up configurations. |
FMC or Remote storage |
7000/8000 series |
Configurations |
If backed up on the FMC GUI, save to the device and optionally the FMC, or save to remote storage. If backed up on the device GUI, save to the device only. |
NGIPSv ASA FirePOWER |
Not supported. If you need to replace once of these devices, you must manually recreate device-specific configurations. However, backing up the FMC does back up policies and other configurations that you deploy to managed devices, as well as events already transmitted from the devices to the FMC. |