Restoring Your Configuration; Restoring Your Configuration Settings In The Web-Based Manager; Restoring Your Configuration Settings In The Cli - Fortinet FortiGate Series Administration Manual
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Managing firmware versions
Restoring your configuration
Restoring your configuration settings in the web-based manager
Restoring your configuration settings in the CLI
FortiGate Version 4.0 MR1 Administration Guide
01-410-89802-20090903
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Your configuration settings may not carry forward after downgrading to a previous
firmware. You can restore your configuration settings for a previous firmware with the
configuration file you saved before upgrading to FortiOS 4.0.
You can also use the following procedures for restoring your configuration after installing a
current patch release or maintenance release.
The following procedure restores your previous firmware configuration settings in the
web-based manager.
To restore configuration settings in the web-based manager
1 Log in to the web-based manager.
2 Go to System > Maintenance > Backup & Restore.
3 Select to restore the configuration from either a Local PC, FortiManager or FortiGuard
(if your FortiGate unit is configured for FortiGuard Analysis and Management Service).
4 If required, enter your password for the configuration file.
5 Enter the location of the file or select Browse to locate the file.
6 Select Restore.
The FortiGate unit restores the configuration settings. This may take a few minutes since
the FortiGate unit will reboot.
You can verify that the configuration settings are restored by logging in to the web-based
manager and going through the various menus and tabs.
The following procedure restores your previous firmware configuration settings in the CLI.
To restore configuration settings in the CLI
1 Copy the backed-up configuration file to the root directory of the TFTP server.
2 Start the TFTP server.
3 Log in to the CLI.
4 Enter the following command to ping the computer running the TFTP server:
execute ping <server_ipaddress>
Pinging the computer running the TFTP server verifies that the FortiGate unit and
TFTP server are successfully connected.
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