Hi,
I have ASG 7.504 (Free Home Edition). Currently, it is running on a very low powered PC which I had used for testing out the install, product features and most importantly, whether or not I will be able to manage a full firewall product.

Now that I have got it working to a point that I am very satisfied. I want to move to more powerful hardware. My thought is that I will download the version available from Astaro, install it on the new hardware and restore the current backup. My doubts are:

a) Will I be able to use the old license key file?
b) If I restore the backup from old hardware to new hardware, will I get all my settings, certificates, user accounts, PF rules, NAT rules so on?
c) If not, then what will I lose?

Is this the right way or is there a better way?

Thanks...
Arun Gupta

a) yes, if you don't change to a ASG appliance
b) yes - only thing can be that the ifc are different numbered from before (i.e. what you expect as eth0 is eth3 etc...), but this is not really a problem..
c) n.a.
cheers

You will. We recently upgraded our Astaro unit at work from an Atom 330 to one of the Celeron 420 based Supermicro boxes that was discussed in another thread.

The process was really simple. After installing Astaro to the new box I just uploaded the backup config to the new box and rebooted. The unit came up with all the settings identical the old box, the NIC's in the new box dropped into place of the old ones.

Only thing that didn't go across, and this may have been my mistake, were the log files from the old unit. It wasn't a big issue for me but for some it could be.

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Right, log files, reporting and the email SMTP log and quarantine are not a part of the configuration backup.

Cheers - Bob

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Bob, Andrew, AMros
Your replies have been a great help. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond.

Regards
Arun Gupta