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Use this document to create a backup file of your data security manager (DSM). 

Before you upgrade to Generation 4, Armor recommends that you create a backup file. This backup file will include: 

  • Embedded databases
  • Agent/server certificates
  • Encryption keys and key groups
  • Hosts and host groups
  • Domains
  • High Availability configuration
  • Administrators
  • Policies
  • Log settings

You can restore a Vormetric DSM by using a downloaded backup of the configuration file. The backup file can be downloaded


Note

Before you begin:

  • You must have system administrator credentials to access the Vormetric DSM
  • You must be able to connect to your Cisco AnyConnect VPN client in order to reach the DSM's public IP address over an https:// connection.


At a high level, this process includes five major stepsto create, save, and upload a backup file, you must:  

  • Create a new system administratorCreate an asymmetric wrapper key custodian
  • Create and exportt export the wrapper key
  • Download the encrypted DSM configuration file 
  • Restore the wrapper key and configuration file
  • Upload the DSM with the configuration file file

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Step 1: Create

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a new wrapper key

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custodian  

  1. Log into the DSM console as the system administrator (admin). 

    1. Click the Administrators tab. (You can ignore the drop-down menu that appears.) 
    2. Click Add to create a new administrator. 
  2. In Login, enter a user name that you will use to log into the DMS.  
  3. (Optional) In Description, enter an easily identifiable description.  
  4. You can leave the RSA User ID field blank.
  5.  In Password and Confirm Password, enter a password. 
    • Armor recommends that you enter a temporary password because after you log into the DSM as the system administrator,  you will be asked to change your password. 
  6. In User Type, select System Administrator
  7. Make sure the Read-Only User box is unmarked.
  8. Click Ok

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  1. Log into the DMS as the Wrapper Key Custodian. 
  2. In the top bar, click Systems, and then select Wrapper Keys
  3. Next to Operation, in the drop-down menu, select Import
  4. Click Add
  5. In the window that appears, in Key Share, enter the wrapper key share. 
  6. Click Ok
  7. In the window that appears, the wrapper key share will populate the field. For this wrapper key share, mark the Selected column. 
  8. Click Apply
  9. Log out of the DSM. 

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Step 5:

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Upload the DSM configuration file

  1. Log in the DSM as the system administrator (admin). 
  2. In the top menu, click Systems.
    1. Select Backup and Restore, and then select Manual Backup and Restore
  3. Click Restore
  4. Click Browse to locate and select the DSM configuration file. 
  5. Click OK.  
    1. After you click OK, you will be logged out of the DSM. 
  6. Log back into the DSM as the security administrator (admin), and then verify the DSM configuration has been restored correctly. 

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