topic Re: Umbrella VA backups in Cloud Security

Umbrella VA backups

cshackel77 — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:19:02 GMT

Any known caveats with using Avamar snapshot backups on VMware VAs?

Re: Umbrella VA backups

Niles Pyelshak — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:54:26 GMT

Hello,

Please be advised that Cisco does not recommend backing up or cloning of Virtual Appliances(VA) as that could result is some sync issues when restoring the VAs. The VAs were not designed to be backed up and they do not cache any data that would require backing up. What Cisco does recommend is a fresh download of components from the Cisco Umbrella Dashboard and redeployment in the event of failure of recovery. This is also faster than restoring from a backup.

~Niles

HTH

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Re: Umbrella VA backups

Josiane de Barros Silva — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:48:18 GMT

HI @cshackel77

We had a problem with one of our VAs and used a copy, after which it always becomes unstable.
One hour does not work another hour.
So it's better to download a new one.

Best regards,

Josiane

Twitter:SecureGirlNinja