You are running a R75 Security Gateway on SecurePlatform. In case of a hardware failure, you have a server with the exact same hardware and firewall version installed. What backup method could be used to quickly put the secondary firewall into production?
A.
upgrade_export
B.
manual backup
C.
snapshot
D.
backup
I think this answer is wrong. On Check Point User Center it says that snapshot can only be used on the same machine, while “backup” can be used on a second machine.
Even if the other machine is the exact same hardware, it will still have differences in MAC Addresses of the NICs..
I’m agree with André, reference at sk54100 in checkpoint user center: The disadvantages of this utility are that the generated file is very big, and can only be restored to the same device, and exactly the same state (same OS, same Check Point version, same patch level).
What will be the answer then, admin is taking no action on it……means the answer is still “snapshot”
The answer is C.
My understanding is that sk suffers from a lazy writer. I’ve heard and seen other references similar to this one: “The snapshot will generate a large file (typically at least 1GB for a SCS) and can only be restored onto the same machine ie. same hardware and OS version.” This makes a lot more sense when you think about everything that is being backed up. snapshot does not have a security feature that would prevent you from restoring it to another box. But it does remember all of your drivers, etc, that must still work after restoration.
Snapshot is the correct answer. If you refer ‘same machine’ as actually the same physical machine then how a snapshot would be useful if that machine hardware goes faulty or physically damaged? So same machine refers to any machine using same type of hardware/os/version.