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It is important to create a backup of the configuration after you did the changes to the GigaFlow server’s configuration.

Creating a GigaFlow configuration backup for use on a new server on Windows

All the settings made to Gigaflow are stored in the Postgresql database. Thus, it is necessary to use the Postgres pg_dump command to perform the backup.

Find the binaries for windows

The binaries will be installed in the Postgres installation folder. To find this folder, perform the following steps:

1. Open the Services application in Windows.
2. In the Services (Local) list, find the postgresqlXXXXX service.
3. Right-click the postgresqlXXXXX service, and select the Properties option.
4. From the General tab, copy the "path to executable" string.
   Note: This folder is the location required to run the backup and restore commands on (for example, D:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\11\bin\).
5. Open an administrator command prompt shell, and change the current working directory to that folder.

How to create a backup

1. In the administrator command prompt shell, run the following command:
   pg_dump -E UTF8 --table=attributecategories --table=attributevalues_0 --table=attributevalues_1 --table=attributevalues_2 --table=attributevalues_3 --table=attributevalues_4 --table=attributevalues_5 --table=attributevalues_6 --table=blacklistslocal --table=blacklistslocalentries --table=blacklistsources --table=customerdevicesettings --table=customersettings --table=dataaccessgroupmembers --table=dataaccessgroups --table=definedapplications --table=deviceinterfaces --table=devices --table=eventtriggers --table=eventtypes --table=flowobjects --table=forensicsreports --table=geoips --table=gigastors --table=integrations --table=interfacefilters --table=interfacealertsettings --table=interfacetypes --table=ldapgroups --table=ldapusers --table=ldapnestedgroups --table=multiservertargets --table=networkaudits --table=pentypes --table=penvendors --table=portalusers --table=portparams --table=profilers --table=profilerstoallowedprofiles --table=profilerstoentryprofiles --table=queryfielderservers --table=reportlinks --table=reportnameoverrides --table=savedreports --table=serverparams --table=serversubnetport --table=serversubnets --table=snmppollerclasses --table=snmppollerclassesforsysoid --table=sqlreports --table=standardapplications --table=stattypes --table=syslogprocessors --table=syslogprocessorsdefault --table=trafficgroups --table=trafficgroupsdeployed --table=trafficgroupsubnets --table=eventrunners --table=eventrunners_versioned --table=definedservers --table=usergroups --table=userldapsettings --table=userpermissions --table=users --table=whitelist --table=aws_s3_bucket_config --table=awsconnections --table=cloudinstancetoip --table=fwevent --table=fwextcode --table=fwextcodestoappids --table=netflowignores --table=statnames --host=127.0.0.1 -U myipfix -f GigaFlowConfigBackup.sql
2. You may be prompted for the database password, that is myipfix.
   This will create the file GigaFlowConfigBackup.sql in the current directory.
3. Move the GigaFlowConfigBackup.sql file to the location where you store the archive configurations.

Binaries For Linux

1. Open a terminal window with suitable permissions.
2. Run the following command "ps aux | grep postmaster". You should get an output similar to postgres 1834 0.0 0.4 17464052 443692 ? Ss Jul10 0:02 /usr/pgsql-11/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/11/data/.
3. Here, "/usr/pgsql-11/bin/" is the location of the required file, change into that directory and follow the backup/restore instructions below.

Restoring From a GigaFlow Configuration Backup

Warning: the following process will drop the existing database on the server.

1. Stop the GigaFlow service (GigaFlow for windows or systemctl stop rosd for linux).
2. Upload the required GigaFlowConfigBackup.sql file to the machine.
3. psql --host=127.0.0.1 --username=myipfix -c "drop database myipfix" postgres //Only if getting rid of old data, you will have to "\c postgres" first and make sure gigaflow is stopped
4. psql --host=127.0.0.1 --username=myipfix -c "create database myipfix owner=myipfix" postgres
5. psql --host=127.0.0.1 --username=myipfix < ./GigaFlowConfigBackup.sql

6. You may be prompted for the database password, i.e. myipfix.
7. Restart GigaFlow.

1. Run the following command if you want to reset the serverid on a new box:
psql --host=127.0.0.1 --username=myipfix -c "delete from serverparams where key in('serverid','installtime','license')"