Smart-1 3050 Restore to VM

**ricktobin** · 2017-01-28

Hi

Has anyone any experience of taking a backup of a 3050 and restoring it to a Virtual Machine so that there is a running offline version while I rebuild the 3050?

Thanks

Rick

**eduardoxmunoz** · 2017-01-29

Originally Posted by ricktobin

Hi

Has anyone any experience of taking a backup of a 3050 and restoring it to a Virtual Machine

Rick

Hi Rick,

The easiest way is to take a migrate export from the 3050 and then migrate import in the VM. Make sure that the VM, is running the same version, also configure the same hostname. If you're willing to have an 'offline' version only, the IP address can be different but you need to create a loopback interface with the production IP so that Check Point does not complain for licensing.

Regards

Ed

**jflemingeds** · 2017-01-29

Originally Posted by ricktobin

Hi

Has anyone any experience of taking a backup of a 3050 and restoring it to a Virtual Machine so that there is a running offline version while I rebuild the 3050?

Thanks

Rick

Not sure what version your on, but i did exactly this on R77.30 from a 3050 backup and wasn't able to open any policies. The fix was in sk107742 if i recall.

**eduardoxmunoz** · 2017-01-29

Originally Posted by jflemingeds

I did exactly this on R77.30 from a 3050 backup and wasn't able to open any policies.

That's the problem of backups, it's platform dependent. If for example, the interface names are different the restore will fail.

That's why it's easier to rely on migrate export/import.

Have a look at "Backup limitations" at sk91400

"Restore is only allowed using the same appliance type on the source and target computers."

Regards,

Ed

**jflemingeds** · 2017-01-30

That wasn't an option in my case. I can't have afford to have a 3rd 3050 laying around who's only job is testing backup restore process.

**ricktobin** · 2017-01-31

Thank you for the replies, the migrate import worked a treat for this.

Thank you.

Rick

**jflemingeds** · 2017-04-24

I know you already got this working but i wanted to show i ran into the same issue. sk65962 fixed the issue. Basically i think cvpn rpm wasn't installed on the restored machine in my case. I was also testing backup / restore process so I didn't want to use export option.