Restore procedure question

[melipla]

Hi,

I have a quesiton about restoring a backup. Currently the basic steps I have are:

Install SPLAT.
sysconfig -> install products -> reboot
Install HFA -> reboot
Restore backup -> reboot.

My question is, do I need to install the HFA or is the HFA contained in the backup?

Thanks

[kva.kva]

If you use backup/restore commands, imho better after installation CP apply HFA which was installed on system before backup, restore from backup and then apply last HFA.

[melipla]

Originally Posted by kva.kva

If you use backup/restore commands, imho better after installation CP apply HFA which was installed on system before backup, restore from backup and then apply last HFA.

Hmm. Well I ask because if I skip over the HFA installation, and just do the restore, when the firewall comes back up, a cp ver -k will report that an HFA is installed....so I wanted to know if that was the case or not.

I've been installing the same HFA that the backup was taken with "just in case", but it adds a lot of time to a recovery procedure...if its unnecessary then I'd like to skip it and save myself the time.

As for applying the latest HFA ...well I don't want to complicate the "recovery" by adding an unknown, so that's why I left that out.

Thanks.

[northlandboy]

You must install the same HFA as you previously had. The reason that the version check commands report the HFA installed is because it's included in the dynamic data, which is restored from a backup. However, the binaries in $FWDIR/bin have not been updated. So while it may report that it has been updated, it will not have been.

For a different take on it, consider what happens with the Nokia flash-based platforms. With those, you can just replace the package file under /opt/packages/installed with one from a system that has the HFA installed - but then it will report that it doesn't have the HFA installed, even though it will actually be running the newer code.

Try running some of the other commands, like cpshared_ver, to pick up on the differences.