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Restoring a Configuration

You can restore your Clearswift Gateway to a configuration that was previously applied. You can do this either from the list of previously applied configurations on the Configuration History tab of the Backup & Restore page, or from a configuration that has been backed up to disk.

  Clearswift Gateway allows you to restore the system to a configuration that previously failed to deploy. For example, you might want to restore a configuration to resolve problems with it, then attempt to re-apply it.

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You can restore the following configuration areas:

Configuration Area Description
Policy Applies or restores all policy configurations defined in the Policy Center.
System Settings Applies or restores configurations defined in the System Center > Configuration section. System Settings restore does not include PMM Settings,Peer Gateway settings or Ethernet Settings.
Network Settings Applies or restores Ethernet Settings configured in System Settings. This option is unavailable if you are restoring a configuration to a peered Gateway.
PMM Settings Applies or restores PMM Settings. To restore PMM Settings only, select PMM Settings and Peer Gateways.
Peer Gateways* Applies or restores PeerGateway configurations defined in System Center > Configuration > Peer Gateway. Do not select this option if you are restoring a configuration from a different Gateway. This will result in a loss of the local peer configuration.
User Accounts Applies or restores user account configurations defined in the User Center. The administrator (admin) account is neither archived nor restored.
Custom Reports Applies or restores customized reports created or modified in the Report Center.
TLS Configuration Applies or restores the global TLS configuration as configured in System > TLS Configuration.
Maintenance Settings Applies or restores the scheduling options and configurations used for Database Optimization.
  You cannot restore Peer Gateway configurations directly from a disk archive. You can however, re-add peers and apply the current configuration to each Peer Gateway.

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  1. From the System Center, click Backup & Restore.

  2. Select the Configuration History tab. The tab displays details of the most recently applied configurations.

      If more than 10 configurations have been applied, you can view older configurations by clicking Preceding Configurations at the bottom of the page.
  3. Select the configuration you want to restore.

  4. In the What would you like to do? Task Pane, click Restore the selected Configuration. The Select Configuration Area To Restore dialog is displayed.

  5. Select the configuration areas you want to restore and click Restore.

  6. If the restore was successful, review the content security policy settings in the Policy Center and the system settings in the System Center.

  7. Click Apply Configuration in the Changes Made panel. Changes will only be applied when you apply the configuration.
  1. From the System Center, click Backup & Restore.
  2. In the task panel, click Upload Backed up Configuration. The Select Configuration Area to Restore dialog is displayed.
  3. Use the Browse button to specify the location of the .bk configuration archive file.

  4. Select the areas of the configuration you want to restore and click Restore.

      When the restoration process has completed, the Configuration Restore page indicates the success or failure of the process, and provides a link to the Manage Configurations page.
  5. If the restore was successful, review the content security policy and system settings in the Policy Center and System Center.
  6. Click Apply Configuration in the Changes Made panel. Changes will only be applied when you apply the configuration.
 

Only one administrator can apply a configuration at any one time. Simultaneous attempts to apply configurations will fail.

If the Clearswift Email Gateway is operating in FIPS Mode, you can only restore FIPS-compliant configurations.

FIPS-compliant backups of configurations can also be applied to non-FIPS Gateways if required.

Configuration backup and restore applies only to your system configuration. Held messages, message tracking and reporting data, and Gateway logs can be archived using System Backup and Restore.

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