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

Question

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?. 
 Regards,

LuCar Toni · Accepted Answer

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.

BrucekConvergent · Answer

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.

Dwayne Parker · Answer

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.

lferrara · Answer

In addition, same number of NICs or greater.