metadata lost after migrate export/import

Henrik_Noerr1 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 11:26:19 GMT

We recently did a migrate export/import from r81.10 to r81.20.

All went well, but now we discover that rule-metadata is not carried over. So important, and for us even critical data is lost.

meta-info:
lock: "unlocked"
validation-state: "ok"
last-modify-time:
posix: 1704621638082
iso-8601: "2024-01-07T11:00+0100"
last-modifier: "System"
creation-time:
posix: 1704621638082
iso-8601: "2024-01-07T11:00+0100"
creator: "System"

So creation-time, modify-time and creator is lost. I have created an SR to restore this data, but not sure Diamond will take on the issue, and put it down to working as intended.

We have a snapshot of the old MDS - so I can see an option to restore the MDS on another server, loop over all rule UIDs and store the metadata. Then loop over new MDS and and replace the metadata. I do not see a api 'set creation-time' for maybe obvious reasons - so any tips on writing directly to the db?

Regards,

Henrik

Re: metadata lost after migrate export/import

PhoneBoy — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 03:49:10 GMT

Unfortunately, I believe this is operating as designed.
Seems like we should have an option to preserve (or at least export) the metadata before we do the upgrade in this case.
That is likely an RFE that you'd have to discuss with your local Check Point office.

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