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Lately I have been attempting to upgrade several Checkpoint Smart Center stations from R60 to R65. Not without a glitch though. So I thought lets write a little bit of documentation about this.
Initially I needed to upgrade the old management station twice to get to R65 which already was a pitfall. But after that it started working properly.Next I downloaded the latest NGX utilties on the internet and performed a backup to prepare for an OS upgrade (changing OS from the company in Redmond to SPLAT).
So far everything went smooth and I felt really relaxed doing it.I rebuild one of the management stations with SPLAT R65 and copied over the huge file (2.5GB in size) which took a little and yeah it was finally there. I wanted to import the file, but sadly I got several errors stating that I could not copy the file etc. I ofcourse am ignorant so I tried to do this manually; and darn that works! Now extracting the file… also works. So why does “upgrade_import” cause problems? After a long struggle, even noticing (I posted forum posts) this on the internet I found the cause of the problem at least the problem for me.
My backups were huge because of database revisions being saved in it as well (as it should) I removed them after a tip from my support company (the tip was for something else but it lead to the solution) and remained with a 53MB file (yeah a bit smaller then before ;-)).
The moment that my support party told me that I could lower the size of the file so that we could analyze it together I got struck by lightning (well an idea struck me) What if the system does not allow files bigger then 2GB (Which is probably hardcoded because the manual copy went OK!) ? So now having the 53MB big backup file, I copied that over much quicker and imported that… it worked..
Symptoms:
DecompressImportedFile: Error >> Failed to copy /var/backups/xxxxx.tgz to /opt/CPsuiteR65/fw1/tmp/upgrade_temp_dirSolution:
Get rid of the database revision files (You can safely back them up and remove the contents of the repository directory and the fwdatabaserevision.dwb file (or something like that)) rerun the backup import on that specific backup and be done with it.