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Network Bandwidth Usage

Daniel Schatz

Hey Guys,

i have a serious Problem.
Executive Mgmt wants me to create a Report of our Bandwidth Usage over the last 3 Months, and they need it NOW.
So i went into our UTM to get a Network Usage Report, and there is...nothing older then Sunday!!

How is that possible?
Of course these figures are totally wrong too!
We updatet our Nodes to the latest Firmware (9.710-1) on Sunday, which went without any Issues.
Did this Update delete our Report Data?
Can we somehow restore that Data, maybe on our HA Slave Node?
OMG, please dont tell me te Data is gone.

Have a look at my Settings:



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    Not sure why this topic is not mentioned in the documentation. I'm just a home user, but imagine this practice applies at any level. One should be able to recover to a working state in case of failure - software, hardware, etc.  Quickly glancing over the admin guide I don't see any other backup/restore options. The config file restore will of course get you running, but you lose lots of log & usage data. I can't imagine the config file restore is the only approved solution, even if not published.

    My utm instance runs as a vm on a proxmox server. The hypervisor software has it's own imaging tool built in so none of the below is necessary.

    If I were running this on bare metal I'd use something like acronis backup/restore, or even clonezilla  (clonezilla DOT org). UTM's hard disk is partitioned as a bunch of ext4 file system partitions. Either of the above two software should be able to generate a full disk image. The high level process goes something like this

    1) boot backup software from usb
    2) select disk to image
    3) perform backup/restore to external hd or network share

    Lets hope one of the mods or support folk has other options for getting you the requested data.

    I should add, any backup system is useless if it can't be successfully restored. Once a backup is generated, it would be wise to test it with another system. In the case of utm and differing hardware it may not be a fully functional restore and you will have to reassign interfaces through shell. That should get you as far as logging into the webadmin to make sure your rules/definitions/log/usage data still exists.

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    Not sure why this topic is not mentioned in the documentation. I'm just a home user, but imagine this practice applies at any level. One should be able to recover to a working state in case of failure - software, hardware, etc.  Quickly glancing over the admin guide I don't see any other backup/restore options. The config file restore will of course get you running, but you lose lots of log & usage data. I can't imagine the config file restore is the only approved solution, even if not published.

    My utm instance runs as a vm on a proxmox server. The hypervisor software has it's own imaging tool built in so none of the below is necessary.

    If I were running this on bare metal I'd use something like acronis backup/restore, or even clonezilla  (clonezilla DOT org). UTM's hard disk is partitioned as a bunch of ext4 file system partitions. Either of the above two software should be able to generate a full disk image. The high level process goes something like this

    1) boot backup software from usb
    2) select disk to image
    3) perform backup/restore to external hd or network share

    Lets hope one of the mods or support folk has other options for getting you the requested data.

    I should add, any backup system is useless if it can't be successfully restored. Once a backup is generated, it would be wise to test it with another system. In the case of utm and differing hardware it may not be a fully functional restore and you will have to reassign interfaces through shell. That should get you as far as logging into the webadmin to make sure your rules/definitions/log/usage data still exists.

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