Progress provides several methods to backup and restore configuration and certificates on MOVEit WAF. Depending on the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), you can take these backups manually or automatically on a daily or weekly schedule.

Best Practices for Backups

Hypervisor snapshots cannot be used to restore a MOVEit WAF instance to a working state. The best way to back up your MOVEit WAF settings is by using the native backup and restore facility in MOVEit WAF WUI or API.

To back up your MOVEit WAF configuration, follow these steps:

1. In the main menu, go to System Configuration > System Administration > Backup/Restore.
2. Click Create Backup File.

You can create a remote host for automated backups using SCP to save backups to a remote server.