topic Re: System backup in General Topics

System backup

babicmilan — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:10:36 GMT

Please let me know why system backup file is too big (in my case over 2.5 GB)

I have some issue doing schedule backup on SCP server, during the process it is interrupted, I think the reason is too big file (attached picture)

Wheather installations of JHF (Jumbo Hotfixes) increase a file size?

Re: System backup

G_W_Albrecht — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:13:21 GMT

This is rather small - in https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk108902 we read:

System Backup

Size of output file on Security Gateway: Depends on configuration

Size of output file on Management Server: 5-100 GB

Re: System backup

Dov_Fraivert — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:18:30 GMT

Hi @babicmilan

The installation of Jumbo should not affect the size of the backup.

What version is your machine?
What type of machine (GW/VSX/MGMT/MDS)?
Is TE on?

Regards,
Dov

Re: System backup

S_E_ — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:32:37 GMT

Hi,

on gateways I see mostly less than 100 MB.

However, I would check some directory if you have hotfixes or crashdumps which are obviously included.

Regards

Re: System backup

babicmilan — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:09:53 GMT

Hello, version is Gaia R81.20, type is gateway. Yes, TE blade is activated.

Re: System backup

babicmilan — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:14:54 GMT

Yes, in my case it is gateway. I'm interested in what icreases system backup file, installation of Jumbo Hotfixes or something other.

Re: System backup

the_rock — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:26:52 GMT

Can you check if you still have previous versions files present? What does df -h output look like?

Andy

Re: System backup

babicmilan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 06:22:39 GMT

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_current 32G 17G 16G 53% /
/dev/sda1 290M 88M 188M 32% /boot
tmpfs 7.7G 31M 7.7G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg_splat-lv_log 72G 44G 29G 61% /var/log

Re: System backup

Robin_H — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:27:21 GMT

Did you follow up on this? Or just accepted it?

After enabling TE, the backup of a gateway (R81.10) in our environment jumped from 120MB to 2.5GB.
Among other things, the backup contains /var/log/files_repository which seems to contain a lot of TE related files (extracted size is 2.8G alone). I guess these are necessary locally so that the gateway can start working with TE without having to wait for a policy push.