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Maintenance Guide
Information about the maintenance tasks of Guardian, to help you administer and maintain the solution in a production environment.
Backup and Restore
Do a restore of the environment from a shell console
You can do a restore of the environment on an existing installation from the sensor shell console.

Guardian
- Introduction
  An overview of Guardian.
- Installation Guide
  Information and resources on how to install Guardian, and the different options and settings that are available.
- Administrator Guide
  Information and resources about the Administration section of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
- User Guide
  Information and resources about the main features of Guardian, and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
- Maintenance Guide
  Information about the maintenance tasks of Guardian, to help you administer and maintain the solution in a production environment.
  - Introduction
  - Backup and Restore
    - Scheduled backups
      You can schedule full backups from the web UI.
    - Do a full backup from a shell console
      You can do a full backup from the sensor shell console.
    - Do a full backup from the web UI
      You can do a full backup from the web UI.
    - Schedule a full backup from the web UI
      You can schedule a full backup from the web UI.
    - Download a backup archive from the web UI
      You can do a download a backup archive from the web UI.
    - Delete a backup archive from the web UI
      You can do a delete a backup archive from the web UI.
    - Upload a backup archive in the web UI
      You can do a upload a backup archive in the web UI.
    - Do a backup of the environment from a shell console
      You can do a backup of an existing environment from the sensor shell console.
    - Do a full restore from the web UI
      You can do a full restore from the web UI.
    - Do a full restore from a shell console
      You can do a full restore from the sensor shell console.
    - Do a restore of the environment from a shell console
      You can do a restore of the environment on an existing installation from the sensor shell console.
  - Reboot and Shutdown
  - Software update and rollback
  - Reset
  - Miscellaneous
- Print format documentation
  A list of all the print-format documentation that is available for Guardian.

Do a restore of the environment from a shell console

You can do a restore of the environment on an existing installation from the sensor shell console.

Open a shell console.
Copy the saved content of the cfg folder to the /data/cfg folder into the sensor.
In the shell console, enter the command:
```
service n2osids stop
```

The environment has been restored.