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Cold Spare

Hi, I'm looking for some help with using a cold spare SG330 firewall. We have two, one of which is fully licensed and in production.

What I'm looking at doing is connecting the spare to a different Internet connection and only powering it up in the event of a failure of the production firewall or Internet connection. Will a backup from our production firewall restore to the standby with the 30 day demo license? Thanks.

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0 sachingurung over 8 years ago

Hi Chris,

The backup will work if the firmware version on both the devices are same or higher in the spare device.

Thanks

Sachin Gurung
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0 sachingurung over 8 years ago

Hi Chris,

The backup will work if the firmware version on both the devices are same or higher in the spare device.

Thanks

Sachin Gurung
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0 ChrisRoberts over 8 years ago in reply to sachingurung

Great, thanks Sachin.
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0 BAlfson over 8 years ago in reply to ChrisRoberts

Hi, Chris, and welcome to the UTM Community!

Why would you want to use a Cold Spare when it costs no more to have the second unit in Hot-Standby? Why would you not connect the second ISP to the units in Hot-Standby so that you could benefit from Uplink Balancing?

If your reseller doesn't have experienced installers, ask Sophos Sales for a recommendation of someone that can help you with the initial design of your configuration in WebAdmin. Some experienced CCIEs may create good designs when installing their first UTM - I've not seen that yet though.

Cheers - Bob

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