Transfer firewall configuration between OMV installations

1st Official Post
    • New

    Is there a way to transfer the firewall configuration from one installation of OMV to another one (different PC, same VLAN)?


    I see that the directory /iptables containing the file openmediavault-firewall.sh is created when I enter firewall rules in the GUI. Can I simply copy this directory and file to the /etc directory in the other installation?

  • KM0201

    Approved the thread.
    • New

    That can't influence the GUI on the machine you copy the files to.

    --
    Google is your friend and Bob's your uncle!


    A backup strategy is worthless unless you have a verified to work by testing restore strategy.


    OMV AMD64 7.x on headless Chenbro NR12000 1U Intel Xeon CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz 32GB ECC RAM.


    • New
    • Official Post
    Quote from Macfast

    Can I simply copy this directory and file to the /etc directory in the other installation?

    No, because the file is generated from the OMV configuration database. You can extract the firewall rules manually from the config.xml file and insert them in the config.xml file of the target system, but this can be tricky and result in a broken database if you do not know what you are doing.

Participate now!

Don’t have an account yet? Register yourself now and be a part of our community!

Register Yourself Login