Backing up and restoring apps

Use the IBM QRadar Backup and Recovery window on the Admin tab to back up and restore apps.

About this task

You can back up your apps by creating a configuration backup. For information on backing up your apps, see Backup QRadar configurations and data. A configuration backup does not back up your app's data. For information on backing up your app's data, see Backing up and restoring app data.

If an App Host is attached to your QRadar Console, the App Host's configuration is backed up as part of the console's Deployment Configuration. You cannot restore an App Host on a QRadar Console with a different IP address than the App Host was initially configured with.

By default, apps are restored to console unless an App Host is present. If QRadar cannot restore apps to your App Host, it attempts to back restore them to the QRadar Console. The number of App Host apps that can be restored onto the console is constrained by the amount of memory that is available on the QRadar Console. Apps that are defined as node_only in their application manifest file cannot be restored to the QRadar Console.

Procedure

  1. On the navigation menu ( Navigation menu icon ), click Admin.
  2. In the System Configuration section, click Backup and Recovery.
  3. Select an existing backup in the Backup and Recovery window and click Restore.
  4. Ensure that the Installed Applications Configuration check box is selected, and click Restore.
    Note: By selecting the Installed Applications Configuration check box, you restore the install app configurations only. Extension configurations are not restored. Select the Deployment Configuration check box if you want to restore extension configurations.