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Chapter 14 Administering the CAM

Backing Up the CAM Database

Note For further details on database logs, refer to Cisco NAC Appliance Log Files, page 13-11.

This section describes the following:

• Automated Daily Database Backups

• Manual Backups from Web Console

• Restoring a CAM Snapshot—Standalone CAM

• Restoring a CAM Snapshot—HA-CAM or HA-CAS

• Backing Up and Restoring CAM/CAS Authorization Settings

• Database Recovery Tool

Automated Daily Database Backups

Cisco NAC Appliance automatically creates daily snapshots of the Clean Access Manager database and

preserves the most recent from the last 30 days. It also automatically creates snapshots before and after

software upgrades, and before and after failover events. For upgrades and failovers, only the last 5

backup snapshots are kept. See Database Recovery Tool, page 14-64 for additional details.

Manual Backups from Web Console

Cisco recommends creating a backup of the CAM before making major changes to its configuration.

Backing up the configuration from time to time also ensures a recent backup of a known-good

configuration profile, in case of a malfunction due to incorrect settings. Besides protecting against

configuration data loss, snapshots provide an easy way to duplicate a configuration among several

CAMs.

Note Manually-created snapshots stay on the CAM until they are manually removed.

Step 1 In the Administration > Backup page, type a name for the snapshot in the Database Snapshot Tag

Name field. The field automatically populates with a filename that incorporates the current date and time

(e.g

MM_DD_YY-hh-mm_snapshot). You can either accept the default name or type another.

Step 2 Click Create Snapshot. The Clean Access Manager generates a snapshot file, which is added to the

snapshot list. The Ve rsion column automatically lists the CAM software version for the snapshot.