CoPilot Configuration Backup and Restore

This section discusses how to back up the CoPilot configuration.

About CoPilot Configuration Backup

The CoPilot configuration backup option backs up all the configuration settings you have made on CoPilot. The CoPilot configuration backup tile backs up all the configurations you have made on CoPilot except the index data. Those backed up configuration includes:

  • NetFlow configuration

  • Alert configuration

  • Performance Scaling

  • Topology Filter

  • Topology Deployment

  • Topology

  • Gateways

  • Edge

  • Connectivity

  • Anomaly Detection Settings

  • RBAC

  • GeoBlocking

  • updateAgent Status

  • Image versions

  • Custom Threat

  • ThreatIQ Consolidation

  • Task

  • Egress

This Copilot configuration backup can be used to restore your CoPilot settings in the event of device failure and helps to save you the efforts on manually configuring all the settings on CoPilot again if you have to re-deploy a new CoPilot from Controller UI. It is highly recommended that you enable the Backup CoPilot Configuration option as soon as you have deployed CoPilot.

Starting from Aviatrix Controller 7.0-patch1.579 and CoPilot 3.7 release, you can use the CoPilot configuration backup and restore function to back up and restore your configurations on CoPilot.

Prerequisites of CoPilot Configuration Backup and Restore

Before you backup and restore the CoPilot configuration, make sure:

  • Your Controller version is no earlier than 6.8.

If you deployed CoPilot using Terraform or marketplace, the CoPilot configuration restore function will not be clickable on the Controller UI.

Back Up Your CoPilot Configuration

Perform the following steps to back up your CoPilot configuration:

  1. Log into your CoPilot.

  2. Go to the Backup CoPilot Configuration card under Settings > Maintenance > Back Up & Restore, click Back Up CoPilot Configuration.

The CoPilot configuration will be initiated after you click the Enable button. The CoPilot configuration is then set to automatically back up every 15 minutes.

Restore Your CoPilot Configuration through CoPilot UI

Perform the following steps to restore your CoPilot configuration:

  1. Log into your CoPilot UI.

  2. Go to Settings > Maintenance > Back Up & Restore > Restore CoPilot Configuration, click Restore.

This CoPilot configuration restore will restore your last CoPilot Configuration backup.

Restore Your CoPilot Configuration through Disaster Recovery

You can restore your CoPilot Configuration while performing disaster recovery. Make sure you have enabled the CoPilot Configuration backup before you restore it. See Back Up Your CoPilot Configuration. Check the Prerequisites of CoPilot Configuration Backup and Restore.

You can restore your backed up CoPilot configurations to a new CoPilot when you deploy a new CoPilot instance or a Fault-Tolerant(Clustered) deployment.

Perform the following steps to Restore your CoPilot configuration:

  1. Log into your Controller UI.

  2. Go to ONBOARDING > Aviatrix CoPilot.

    • Choose your deployment type: simple or fault-tolerant.

      If your old CoPilot is a simple deployment, you can only choose Simple Deployment.
      If your old CoPilot is a Fault-Tolerant(Clustered) deployment, you can only choose Fault Tolerant Deployment as the deployment type.

    • Check Restore from CoPilot Backup.

    • Check I understand that this operation will delete the existing instance.

    • Click Deploy.

For information about backing up CoPilot data indexes, see CoPilot Index Data Backup and Restore.