Policy retreival from firewall

[desiac]

Hi all,

is there anyway to retreive the current policy from the firewall back to the management server?

We store each version of our polciy as a seperate file, in a testing environment we are a little slack in deleting the older policies, consequently the whole management system slows down. We went through the conf dir noticed that the policies were shown as .W files. So i entered these file names into our little program, they deleted. Noticed some but not all policies were removed from within the dashboard, did a find all, after some text manipluation i removed the lines that would delete my current policy, eg:

cp_merge delete_policy -s 127.0.0.1 -n <current>

what i didn't take into account is that there were duplicate .W files referening the same policies (multiple within the cache dirs>, so when i deleted the refereance to my current policy in my little script i was only removing 1 of 3 referenaces. consequently i have lost all my policies.

before i executed my script i made a file copy of the entire conf directory, can anyone tell me what i will need to do to restore my files.

thanks peoples :)