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title: 'Video: How to Back Up and Restore Your Access Server'
canonical: https://openvpn.net/as-docs/videos/video--backup-and-restore/
product: Access Server Docs
description: Watch a video on backing up and restoring your Access Server configuration. It's important to safeguard your server's configuration database.
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# Video: How to Back Up and Restore Your Access Server

This video demonstrates how to back up and restore your Access Server configuration database, which includes vital components such as log reports, user properties, and essential certificates for VPN and web interface operations.

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| **Date published:** | Mar 28, 2024 |
| **Functionality covered:** | We'll walk you through the step-by-step process of creating backup files, ensuring you can handle server migrations or recover swiftly from unexpected server downtimes. |
| **Description** | Overview of existing Access Server configuration (VPN settings, users, groups, and authentication settings). Copy backup commands from our online documentation. Explanation of tools used for the process: SSH session and WinSCP. Start the SSH session and run backup commands. Copy backup files to the local machine. Transfer the backup files to the new server. Start the SSH session on the new server. Copy the commands to restore the backup files. Paste the commands and run them from your console. Create the **openvpn** admin user account. Sign in to the new Access Server and see that the configuration of the previous server is now the same for the new server. |
| **Access Server version** | 2.12.0 |
| **Length** | 13:57 |

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Prev: [Video: Installing a Valid Web Certificate](https://openvpn.net/as-docs/videos/video--install-a-valid-web-certificate.md)
Next: [Video: How to Back Up Access Server Configuration on Docker Container](https://openvpn.net/as-docs/videos/video--backup-on-docker.md)
Index: https://openvpn.net/as-docs/llms.txt