If export files work for you, you can check the contents (tar tzvf
export_file.tgz)of the upgrade_export tgz file. You may mimic the filelist
to your backup script. On the other side you may use expect
(http://expect.nist.gov/) like interactive scripting utility.

fyi,
- yinal ozkan

-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Presley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [FW-1] Backing Up FW-1 Configs


Hello,

I have a distributed FW-1 environment, NG AI on Solaris 8.

My machines (FWs and Management) get backed up to tape nightly.

But during the day the firewall policy is under heavy change.  I
remember in the FW-1 4.0 days there were a serious of important files
you had to backup to be able to recreate a policy/objects/etc.  My
thinking is that if I lose my management station at 5 PM, I'd like to
be able to build a new box (from scratch or tape backup), but restore
the objects/rulebases from a very recent time, say 4 PM.

So before I would just tar/zip up the important files, then ship them
off to another box.  But I don't know what those are under NG AI.  I
know there is an upgrade_export script.  But it requires user input
(saying yes), so I'm not sure how I could script/cron that?  Anyone
know what files to tar/zip, or how to make upgrade_export cron-able?

Shane

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