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Friday, July 25, 2025

How to schedule Palo Alto Firewall config backups

 How to schedule daily config backups for Palo Alto Firewall

Login to the Palo Alto Firewall Web UI.

Navigate to Device > Setup > Operations.



Under the Configuration Management section:

 Click on Export named configuration snapshot to export a saved config.

    Or click on Export running configuration to export the current running config.







Method 2: Export Config Backup via CLI

sameer@mypanoramalin01> scp export configuration from running-config.xml to fwsftpuser@10.0.0.1:backup/
fwsftpuser@
10.0.0.1's password:

running-config.xml      


[root@mypanoramalin01]# ls -lrt

total 224
-rw-r--r--. 1 fwsftpuser sftpusers 228436 Jul 22 12:52 running-config.xml