Back Up the Zabbix Monitoring Component

This article describes how to back up the Configuration management server’s monitoring component.

To restore or extend storage for the Zabbix monitoring component, contact Technical Support.

To back up the Zabbix monitoring component, perform the following steps on the Configuration management server:

1. Open an SSH session to the server.

2. Create a relevant backup directory to save backup files to, under a relevant partition. For example, you can create an NFS mount point.

3. Run a backup. To do this, run the following command:

   /bin/bash /opt/cybereason/zabbix/zabbix_backup.sh [backup_destination_directory_path]
   

   where [backup_destination_directory_path] is the directory you defined in step 2.

4. Set up automatic backups. To do this, add a line to the crontab table by running the crontab -e command and adding the relevant information. For example, if you want to run backups every day at 1AM, add the following line: