I too am interested in the best method for performing this.
Initially I will make a CD Image of the firewall, however I am unsure
whether to simply set up syslog to point to another machine (via serial
cable) that is more accessible for backing up log files. Are there any other
important files that I should be concerned with backing up on a regular
basis ?
Cheers,
Greg.
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Sent: Thursday, 25 November 1999 8:54
To: firewall list
Subject: Firewall backup
Dear folks,
We need to back up a proxy server (in http accellerator mode) in the
DMZ of a firewall. I want to use ssh, dump and restore to do this. The
tape host is a Solaris 2.4 Sparc, is inside the firewall, and is
available locally. The proxy server runs RH Linux 6.1 and is physically
quite a long way away. The firewall rules allow incoming connections
from within the firewall to port 22 on the proxy server; I can ssh to
the proxy server from the tape host So how to back it up? Would
something like this do the job:
tapehost# ssh -f proxy dump -0 -u -b 20 -f - /dev/sda2 | dd bs=20b
of=/dev/rmt/0
Do we need any other firewall rules to make this job simpler?
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