text: To successfully perform the configuration backup, the following prerequisites must be met: 
  
  (cid:2) All nodes are online. 
  (cid:2) No independent operations that change the configuration can be running in parallel. 
  (cid:2) No object name can begin with an underscore. 
  
  **Important:**Ad hoc backup of configuration can be done only from the CLI by using the 
  **svcconfig backup**command. Then, the output of the command can be downloaded by 
  using SCP or GUI. 