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Ron_Beck
Ron_Beck
New Member
November 30, 2015
Question

Backup/Restore from 1000B to a VM appliance.

  • November 30, 2015
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Bought the VM Analyzer and bring it up online to the same version and patch level as the 1000B that is now out of support.  Question is - can I simply backup the 1000B and then restore the config over on the VM FAZ?

 

Since it is virtual, we figured to give it a try.  If it fails, we can just blow it up and start over.  :)

 

--Ron

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Ron_Beck
Ron_BeckAuthor
New Member
December 1, 2015

Nope...doesn't work.  Upside is that aside from some custom reports, there really isn't a lot in the backup that you can't grab and re-enter into the new analyzer.

Mikael_A
Mikael_A
New Member
March 21, 2016

Hello!

I´ve done this alot of times. The trick os to do the following:

 

Backup the FAZ appliance.

Configure up the VM and use the "Execute shell" command.

ftp

open [ftp server where your backup file is].

get [filename]

 

Exit the ftp client

Use the command "tar -zxvf [filename of the backup]

Then exit and reboot.

 

Now, import for examples the report template that you use (if you have extra images etc.

 

scao_FTNT
Staff
scao_FTNT
Staff
March 21, 2016

from FMG/FAZ 5.4.1, we added a new CLI

 

 exec migrate all-settings

 

so can restore db config on a different platform

 

Thanks

 

Simon

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