topic Re: FMC/FTD automatic scheduled backup in Network Security

FMC/FTD automatic scheduled backup

Knassi — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:33:29 GMT

Hello,

Can anyone please help me understand how the FMC and FTD backup work. I do backup of the FMC and the FTDs from the FMC. When it shows on the FMC, i download them and save them. After that i delete them from the FMC. Now were they stored on the FMC? If i do not delete and keep doing it, will the FMC run out of space and possibly not work well? I set up and automatic backup to a share. I found out that instead of the backup going to share, it is being synchronized instead. If i delete the back up from the FMC, it gets deleted from the share as well. So i left them on the FMC now the FMC is no longer backing up.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thaks

Re: FMC/FTD automatic scheduled backup

Marvin Rhoads — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:08:52 GMT

If your FMC-based backup job is set to use the default local backup target, the files will be installed in /var/sf/backup. It can indeed store a lot of files and, if there are too many it can use excessive disk space. Too many = 100+ for most deployments as there is generally adequate disk space for dozens of backups.

If the target is a remote file system (NFS, etc.) then a copy should not be stored on the FMC itself.

Re: FMC/FTD automatic scheduled backup

CiscoBrownBelt — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:16:31 GMT

Hi Marvin. I have a FTD that has a regular schedule, but it never backs up to the remote system as it is configured to do. FMC backup to remote system works fine. The TEST button when testing remote connection/server works fine. Any ideas?

Re: FMC/FTD automatic scheduled backup

MHM Cisco World — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:45:11 GMT

Make new post please

Thanks

MHM

Re: FMC/FTD automatic scheduled backup

CiscoBrownBelt — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:39:01 GMT

Done!