Confusion with FTD Back Up mentioned in FMC Docs

Tammy L. Burley — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:44:17 GMT

I have access to CLS SSNGFW course lab and was researching the FMC/FTD back up functions. But I read this from the docs and it confused me.

Requirements for Backup and Restore

Backup and restore has the following requirements.

Model Requirements: Backup

You can back up:

FMCs
7000/8000 series devices

Backup is not supported for:

Firepower Threat Defense
NGIPSv
ASA FirePOWER

If Backup is NOT support for FTD, and I lose a FTD, how do I restore it. Do backups really need to be configured on each box or is there a work around to be able to use the functionality of FMC?

I just found it odd that FMC cannot manage backups for FTD. Isn't that the beauty of FMC:

thanks!

Re: Confusion with FTD Back Up mentioned in FMC Docs

Rob Ingram — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:52:09 GMT

@Tammy L. Burley

I think you are looking at an old information, on FMC 6.7 docs you can backup FTD:-

You can back up:

FMCs
FTD: standalone, native instance, container instance, or HA
FTDv: VMware, standalone or HA

Backup is not supported for:

FTD: Clustered devices
FTDv: KVM, AWS, Azure
NGIPSv
ASA FirePOWER

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/firepower/670/configuration/guide/fpmc-config-guide-v67/backup_and_restore.html#Cisco_Concept.dita_4c9fc894-dd20-4d86-853d-341c91662bee

Regardless, if managed by the FMC then backing up the FMC is more important than an FTD configuration. The FTD only requires a management IP address, once communication between the 2 has been setup, the FMC will push the configuration, policies etc.

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Model Requirements: Backup

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