topic R82 migrate_server change in Firewall and Security Management

R82 migrate_server change

John-Haynes — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:27:33 GMT

Anyone else notice that migrate_server in R82 is exporting using .txz rather than .tgz? I'm surprised that the documentation doesn't mention this as it's a big change for anyone scripting anything with this:

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R82/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R82_CLI_ReferenceGuide/Content/Topics-CLIG/SECMG/migrate_server.htm

Re: R82 migrate_server change

the_rock — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:39:48 GMT

I ran it about 10 days ago and it produced tgz file. I did it exactly like in the example from the migrate server sk.

Andy

Re: R82 migrate_server change

John-Haynes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:45:50 GMT

What version of the upgrade tools are you running?

Re: R82 migrate_server change

the_rock — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:46:50 GMT

Hey,

I cant recall now, but whatever was in the sk.

Andy

Re: R82 migrate_server change

RamGuy239 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:04:04 GMT

I'm getting .txz when using Gaia R82, both $MDS_FWDIR/scripts/migrate_server export and the older $FWDIR/bin/upgrade_tools/migrate export provides .txz instead of .tgz.

Re: R82 migrate_server change

the_rock — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:12:43 GMT

Had that happen to me last week, I just renamed it to right format with mv command before running the import, no issues.

Andy

Re: R82 migrate_server change

RamGuy239 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:13:43 GMT

I've had no issues with imports, can import .txz directly.

Re: R82 migrate_server change

the_rock — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:15:20 GMT

Right, right...Im almost positive if it does not like the format, it would show that on the screen.

Andy

Re: R82 migrate_server change

Tal_Paz-Fridman — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:35:49 GMT

Are you using the latest Upgrade Tools?

https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk135172

Re: R82 migrate_server change

the_rock — Thu, 01 May 2025 23:31:46 GMT

I updated them last time, but still got the same thing. I figured it might be by default, thats why I just renamed the file and then all worked.

Andy

Re: R82 migrate_server change

Paul_Hagyard — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 20:56:15 GMT

They've moved to use XZ for compressing the migrate export which uses a different algorithm and should provide better compression - at the cost of slower speed and higher memory usage. They've stuck with gzip for the GAiA backups, likely because you can cope with a management server running slow for a bit but it's not desirable on a gateway,

If you needed to manually look at something in the migrate export file use "J" in place of "g" in the tar command, e.g.:
tar tJf <migrate export filename>

With care...

tar xJf <migrate export filename>

Re: R82 migrate_server change

the_rock — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:04:49 GMT

I noticed that too.