How does fortimanager automatically take backup fortigate firewall

[CEMS]

My Fortigate firewall and Fortiswitches are defined and working synchronously on Fortimanager. I want automatic backups of the firewalls and switches on a regular schedule, for example once a week. How can I do this?

[sw2090 · Accepted solution]

well FortiManager anyways always knows the current config of your FortiGates. If you change device config on the FortiGate directly the changes will be pushed to the FortiManager (called AutoUpdate). Changes of the policy package should only be made via the FortiManager. 

If you keep up to that then every revision you see in FMG Device Manager for your Fortigate is a complete backup of it which you can take and restore on the FMG.

[munjyana]

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[sw2090 · Accepted solution]

well FortiManager anyways always knows the current config of your FortiGates. If you change device config on the FortiGate directly the changes will be pushed to the FortiManager (called AutoUpdate). Changes of the policy package should only be made via the FortiManager. 

If you keep up to that then every revision you see in FMG Device Manager for your Fortigate is a complete backup of it which you can take and restore on the FMG.

[CEMS]

thank you so much I understand right now,I got the idea for firewalls but I added my fortiswitches(managed fortilink) on fortimanager so how can I take my switches backup as like firewall on fortimanager ?

[jasonhong · Accepted solution]

Please note that FortiSwitch is not listed as one of the valid platform in which management feature is available under FortiManager.

Hence, FortiManager will not be able to have management feature over FortiSwitch, inhibiting FortiSwitch's backup to be taken from FortiManager.

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortimanager/7.2.5/release-notes/555004