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raphael_lage
New Member
November 8, 2021
Question

Automate backup

  • November 8, 2021
  • 3 replies
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Hello guys.

 

In the company I work for, we have 05 Fortigate firewalls that are EC2 in AWS. Today we backup the firewall manually and I would like to do these backups automatically and the perfect world would already move these backups to a S3 Bucket. Is there any way to do that?

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    sw2090
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    November 17, 2021

    you could enable scp download and write some script that gets a config backup via scp and run that periodically via crond or whatsoever.

    you could also create some cli script. Afair FortiOS cli can create a backup and uplod it via ftp or something. you could then have your FGT exec that periodically via action stitch.

     

    Or you use a FOrtiManager to manage your FGT. Then FMG alsways knows the latest config of any managed FGT and you just need to backup your FMG :)

    agodbole
    Staff
    Staff
    November 17, 2021

    You can use a FTP or SCP to take the backup and use the automation script with CLI action and schedule to schedule it. here is the link that you  can follow

    https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-Automated-script-execution/ta-p/193685?externalID=FD51050

    DineshkumarArumugam
    New Member
    February 13, 2025

    Hi,

    did you achieve this ?

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