Sophos Firewall: Back up and restore firewalls
A step-by-step tutorial showing you how to back up and restore your Sophos Firewall. You'll learn about the different backup modes, secure storage master key (SSMK), and best practices for firewall backups. Next, you'll learn the steps to create a firewall backup, back up your configuration to Sophos Central, and restore backups to the same or different firewall model.
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- Video Chapters*
00:00 Intro
00:11 Firewall backups
00:42 Overview
01:12 Prerequisites
02:10 Secure storage master key (SSMK) overview
03:57 Backup best practices
04:35 Create new backup
06:08 Back up to Sophos Central
07:55 Restore to same device
09:17 Restore to other device
11:53 Remove pseudo ports
12:53 Outro
- Relevant Documentation*
📖 Backup-restore
https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/22.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/index.html
📖 Secure storage master key
https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/22.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/index.html
💡 Backup-restore compatibility check
https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/reference/backup_restore/port_mapping/en-us/
- ️ Sophos Firewall: Configuration Viewer
- https://techvids.sophos.com/watch/oq53EuzJRoYhJYH3Gy9ya2
🔗 Sophos Firewall Configuration Viewer
https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/config-viewer/index.html
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