text: **3.18 Storwize V7000 configuration backup procedure**
  
  Save the configuration before and after any change to the clustered system, such as adding 
  nodes and back-end storage. Saving the configuration is a crucial part of Storwize V7000 
  management, and various methods can be applied to back up your Storwize V7000 
  configuration. The preferred practice is to implement an automatic configuration backup using 
  the configuration backup command. Make sure that you save the configuration to storage that 
  is not dependent on the SAN Virtualization Controller. 
  
  For more information, see Chapter 13, “RAS, monitoring, and troubleshooting” on page 673. 