After downloading your upgrade file, back up your appliance. Regularly backing up your ZixGateway files ensures that you will not lose data in the event of a system outage. The ZixGateway upgrade requires a backup of your ZixGateway appliance.
To back up your ZixGateway appliance:
| 1. | Log in to your ZixGateway system as zixadmin. To run this upgrade, you must have a connection to the console (KVM). |
| 2. | Run the sudo -i command. |
sudo -i
| 3. | Change the directory. |
cd /home/zixadmin
| 4. | Backup your files: |
zixbackup
| Note: | This should be run on each ZixGateway. |
db_backup
chmod 777 backup_dashboard
| Note: | db_backup can only be run on the ZixGateway running ZixGateway Manager. The name of the file will have the format backup_dashboard_<date>.tar.gz. |
| 5. | Verify that the email generated by zixbackup containing your backup was received by your ZixGateway administrator. |
| 6. | Transfer the backup_dashboard_<date>.tar.gz file generated by db_backup off of the appliance. |
| 7. | Delete the file from the ZixGateway Manager after transferring. |
rm backup_dashboard*
Your files are now backed up. After backing up your files, you must remove secondary appliances from ZixGateway Manager.