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Migrate xg virtual home backup to xg 210rev.3 licensed.

aaa kkk

Hello guys,

I've been running xg virtual appliance at home in an esxi machine and today I've purchased a xg 210 rev3 appliance with a license. Now, my question is that how can I move my current configuration to the new appliance? Just backup from home version and restore on the new appliance after installing license etc?.

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    Take a look at the following KBA: https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/124585

    Should work. Backup / restore is a good way to go. 

    BTW: If you run a virtual appliance, it should not be a Home license! Home is only for privat / personal usage, not for PoC / trial approaches. 

     

  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    Hi LuCar,

    I was running the virtual appliance home license due to the wait time provided by reseller for xg 210 appliance, it took almost 3 weeks to arrive and another 4 days for the license which arrived today.

    I've seen that KBA but I have one doubt which I'd like to clear, when you restore a backup, does it also replace licenses and sophos account the firewall is connected to?

    I'd really appreciate your response here.

    Thank you

  • +1 in reply to aaa kkk

    In my experience (which has only been restoring backups to replacement hardware) the licenses are not part of the backup.  That's stored in a different configuration area on the appliance (whether "real" or virtual).  I always have to go thru the license transfer process (which is now quite easy, thankfully, used to not be) when we replace a customer's failed XG appliance, even after restoring the backup.

  • +1

    Hi,

     

     

    Yes, you should be able to restore the Backup.

    My experience is, that you should have the same SFOS Version running on the Backup Source and the Backup Destination Device, otherwise it could lead to errors.

  • 0 in reply to Dwayne Parker

    In addition, same number of NICs or greater.

  • 0 in reply to lferrara

    The License in context of XG is always attached to the Serial number.

    In Case of virtual Appliance, the SN could be moved, but will not, because you will restore the configuration after registration (attaching SN to appliance).

    In Case of hardware appliance, the SN is always attached to the hardware and cannot be changed. 

    So the License will not be moved.

    Site effects could be: The Certificates, which will be generated by registration and contains the SN, will be moved via Backup Restore. So Re Generate them on the new appliance, if wanted.