Backup & Restore

Hi

My backup/restore was to the same machine.


Regards

Darren Conway
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On 13-Jun-17 12:09 AM, ipcop-user-request-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org wrote:
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> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 13:46:30 +0100 (BST)
> From: "G.W. Haywood" <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [IPCop-user] Backups
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> Hi there,
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> On Sun, 11 Jun 2017, Joel wrote:
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>> My apologies if this has been covered previously.
> I think it might have been been mentioned. :)
>
>> I have just setup a new IPCop box (old one still in use).  I did create
>> a 'backup' of the old IPCop box, then imported that 'backup' into the
>> new IPCop box.
>>
>> Both are running IPCop 2.1.9, the same version of CopFilter, Guardian
>> and Snort (all from the same locally saved install files).
> But almost by definition they aren't running on the same hardware...
>
> The way I read it, the backups you make with IPCop are intended to be
> used during an installation procedure to create a firewall similar in
> behaviour to the one from which the backup was taken.  But the backup
> configuration contains information about (for example) device drivers,
> so that if the original machine actually fails, it can be repaired and
> put back in service using the backup data.  If instead of a repair you
> get a new machine, there's no reason why things like drivers should be
> the same on the old and new hardware so it might perhaps be optimistic
> to take all the backup data from the old machine, write it to the new
> without any consideration of the hardware, and expect it to work.
>
>> After I performed the import, none of the firewall services are present
>> on the new IPCop box, nor is my Snort code.
>>
>> Is this common/expected behavior?  Do I need to manually re-create each
>> firewall service?
> I think it's more or less expected given what you've tried to do.
>

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