Why and when to perform this task
There are two situations in which you might want to back up a gateway configuration:
The Back up options save the deployment details for all the Web services and associated resources (channels, filters, UDDI references and so on) that are currently deployed to the gateway. There are two backup options: Save Gateway Configuration > Private and Save Gateway Configuration > Shared. For an explanation of these terms, and detailed steps for this task, see Backing up a gateway configuration.
The Restore option uses a previously-saved gateway configuration to populate an empty installation of the gateway with the same deployment details. For detailed steps for this task, see Restoring a gateway configuration.