Firewall Module - Cold StandBy ??

[chibo]

Hi All
I was wondering what is the best method to have a cold standby server for my firewall modules (R61 HF1)
I have couple of fw modules servers running splat , and I would like to have some kind of image process that they can be updated and sit aside (the update will be done each one month , as there are not so many changed in the rules and alike)

I know there is something named snapshot or alike in the splat .. did any one use it ? what do you think
I prefer working this way cause
- I don't want to spend time incase of a carsh
- I don't want to have someone install the server for me , cause then new problems can come and we spend more time

love to hear what you people have to say ;-)
10x,
Haim

[melipla]

Hi,

Instead of snapshot, I would recommend using backup & restore. Create a new (duplicate) system from scratch, run the sysconfig configure it as you did for the active system. Then run a "backup -f <file>" on the active system, copy that to the new backup system, and run a restore. Simply repeat the backup/restore to update the system in the future.