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Sophos Policies and Groups - restore to different server

Dandare00uk

Have searched the forum and can not find exactly what I am asking for..

I have a Sophos server with Groups and Policies assigned to the groups. For a migration I have an indentically built server but of course with a different IP and Name. Is there a way of backing up the Groups and/or Policies and restoring just this to the new server. The managed workstations would be brought across at a different time. The requirement at this time is just to have the setup of groups and policies to match our live server.

Thanks.

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    Hello Dandare00uk,

    all the information is in the database and except for a few things can't be individually exported. They only way to transfer this information would be exporting (backing up) the database and importing them on the new server.

    The new server would correct the entry (ComputerID = 1) for itself and leave the rest untouched. You might or might not want to do the same for the Private Store data. The updating policies would have to be amended. As it imports everything the computers (along with their alerts and events) would also be there. The advantage is that a "brought across" computer will appear in its original group. If you do not want this (or want to start "clean") the you could (ab)use PurgeDB to delete all but the management server.

    Christian

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    Hello Dandare00uk,

    all the information is in the database and except for a few things can't be individually exported. They only way to transfer this information would be exporting (backing up) the database and importing them on the new server.

    The new server would correct the entry (ComputerID = 1) for itself and leave the rest untouched. You might or might not want to do the same for the Private Store data. The updating policies would have to be amended. As it imports everything the computers (along with their alerts and events) would also be there. The advantage is that a "brought across" computer will appear in its original group. If you do not want this (or want to start "clean") the you could (ab)use PurgeDB to delete all but the management server.

    Christian

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