Back up and restore the Intelligent Sandbox database

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As a precaution, you can periodically backup the Intelligent Sandbox database. You can then restore a backup of your choice when required. For example, if you want to discard all changes made during a troubleshooting exercise, you can restore the backup that was taken before you started troubleshooting.

You can schedule automatic backups to a designated FTP or SFTP server on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis.

When you want to restore a backup, Intelligent Sandbox collects the selected backup file from the FTP or SFTP server and overwrites its database with the contents of the backup file.

Back up data

Data

Data included in backup

  • Local blacklist

  • Global Whitelist

  • VM profiles

    Note

    The analyzer VM image or VMDK files are not included in the back up. Before you restore a backup, make sure the image files specified in the backed-up VM profiles are located in Intelligent Sandbox.

  • Analyzer profiles

  • User information

  • ePO - On-prem integration details

  • Proxy settings

  • DNS settings

  • Syslog settings

  • SNMP settings

  • Date and time settings including the NTP server details

  • Load-balancing cluster settings

    Note

    This does not include the configuration and analysis results from the other nodes in the cluster.

  • Custom YARA rules and configuration

  • Backup scheduler settings

  • File back up details

Data not included in backup

  • Any sample file or URL that is being analyzed at the time of backup

    Note

    The Analysis Status page only shows the file being currently analyzed

  • The VMDK or image files of analyzer VMs

  • The Intelligent Sandbox software in the active or backup disk

  • The log files and diagnostic files

  • Intelligent Sandbox Appliance network information

  • Custom web certificate

  • Banner settings

  • Dashboard settings