https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Problems-with-the-migrate-process-from-R77-30-to-R81/m-p/146981#M72222 <P>good morning</P><P>I am doing a lab to migrate from r77.30 to r80.* until I reach R81.*, and make all the necessary modifications to go into production in new Appliances, I am having several problems that I share with you in search of your experience and valuable knowledge.</P><P>I explain the laboratory environments:<BR />1- VMWare version 6.5, all the configuration is executed without problems, when I try to restore the CheckPoint configuration with the migrate import and upgrade_export tools, in both cases it gives me an error, before restoring, check the md5 of the backups and there is no problem</P><P>2.-As a second way, use a smart-1 25 like the production one, I take a backup, verify md5, then restore it, in this case it only restores the GAiA configurations, users, Network, routes among others, but does not restore absolutely anything of the configuration of CheckPoint.</P><P>Many years ago, there was a document that through certain steps and restoring specific files could recover all the information on the console</P><P>What do you recommend me to do?</P><P>Thanks for your help</P> Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:20:57 GMT Guillermo_Estra 2022-04-25T13:20:57Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Problems-with-the-migrate-process-from-R77-30-to-R81/m-p/146981#M72222 <P>good morning</P><P>I am doing a lab to migrate from r77.30 to r80.* until I reach R81.*, and make all the necessary modifications to go into production in new Appliances, I am having several problems that I share with you in search of your experience and valuable knowledge.</P><P>I explain the laboratory environments:<BR />1- VMWare version 6.5, all the configuration is executed without problems, when I try to restore the CheckPoint configuration with the migrate import and upgrade_export tools, in both cases it gives me an error, before restoring, check the md5 of the backups and there is no problem</P><P>2.-As a second way, use a smart-1 25 like the production one, I take a backup, verify md5, then restore it, in this case it only restores the GAiA configurations, users, Network, routes among others, but does not restore absolutely anything of the configuration of CheckPoint.</P><P>Many years ago, there was a document that through certain steps and restoring specific files could recover all the information on the console</P><P>What do you recommend me to do?</P><P>Thanks for your help</P> Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:20:57 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Problems-with-the-migrate-process-from-R77-30-to-R81/m-p/146981#M72222 Guillermo_Estra 2022-04-25T13:20:57Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Problems-with-the-migrate-process-from-R77-30-to-R81/m-p/147024#M72223 <P>Please provide more details about the precise migration steps you were following and the precise steps you took at each point.<BR />Keep in mind when migrating from R77.30, you will need to take the migrate export using the migration tools for the target version, which I assume in this case would be R80.40.<BR />Also please provide the exact error messages you received along the way.</P> <P>What precise method did you use to take the backup from Smart-1 25?<BR />Refer to here for the various backup/restore methods:&nbsp;<A href="https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;solutionid=sk108902" target="_blank">https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doGoviewsolutiondetails=&amp;solutionid=sk108902</A>&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 25 Apr 2022 21:34:06 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/Problems-with-the-migrate-process-from-R77-30-to-R81/m-p/147024#M72223 PhoneBoy 2022-04-25T21:34:06Z