Restoring a Configuration

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.

From the System Center, click Backup & Restore.
In the task panel, click Upload Backed up Configuration. The Select Configuration Area to Restore dialog is displayed.
Use the Browse button to specify the location of the .bk configuration archive file.

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.

If the restore was successful, review the content security policy and system settings in the Policy Center and System Center.
Click Apply Configuration in the Changes Made panel. Changes will only be applied when you apply the configuration.

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.

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