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Fix automatic firewall backups

Make sure that automatic backups are turned on for your firewalls.

Note

To affect the health check score, firewalls must be licensed, managed by Central, and connected to Central.

Fix automatically

  1. Click Fix automatically in the warning.

    Fix your firewall backups automatically.

  2. Click Turn on.

    Turn on automatic firewall backups.

    If your firewall backup schedule was set to Never, it'll be set to Monthly on the 1st of the month by default.

    If firewalls were missing from the backup schedule, they're now added.

    The automatic backups check now shows a score of 100.

Fix manually

  1. Go to My Products > Firewall Management > Backup.
  2. In Schedule Backup, select the Backup Frequency.

  3. Set the day of the week (or the date if you selected monthly backups) when the backup will happen.

    Note

    Backups happen at 0800 local time (the time zone of the region the account is in). You can't change this.

  4. Make sure all of your licensed firewalls are added to the backup schedule.

  5. Go to Dashboards > Account Health Check.

    The automatic backups check now shows a score of 100.