Firewall Rules Backup

Hi,

These last days I have had some problems with BIS 2015 and finally I purchased BIS 2016.

Each time that I have had to re-install BIS 2015 the added rules to the firewall section were lost, and of course is a "dirty job" to enter the rules one y one again. Now BIS 2016 is correctly working, but I was wondering if there's any way to "backup" the firewall rules in order to restore this data in case that Bitdefender needs to be reapired or re-installed.

Thank you!

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Papalapa

Nobody knows it or isn't possible to do this?

I'm still waiting for a solution about how to export the created Firewall rules that allows to restore the rules in case of a new Bitdefender 2016 install..

Vitalik1993

I'm still waiting for a solution about how to export the created Firewall rules that allows to restore the rules in case of a new Bitdefender 2016 install..

It's impossible unfortunatelly...

Nesivos

I'm still waiting for a solution about how to export the created Firewall rules that allows to restore the rules in case of a new Bitdefender 2016 install..

You could try this

Open Windows Explorer

Go to Program Files------>Bitdefender----------->Bitdefender 2016--------->Settings------->Firewall. Copy the 'rules.xml' file to some safe location. After reinstalling Bitdefender copy the old rules file over the new file.

Note I have never tried this and have no idea what the result will be. I also don't know if it is an all (all *.xml files) in the that location or just the 'rules.xml' file that will work.

If you do try it please post back and let us know what happened. Thanks.

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Papalapa

You could try this

Open Windows Explorer

Go to Program Files------>Bitdefender----------->Bitdefender 2016--------->Settings------->Firewall. Copy the 'rules.xml' file to some safe location. After reinstalling Bitdefender copy the old rules file over the new file.

Note I have never tried this and have no idea what the result will be. I also don't know if it is an all (all *.xml files) in the that location or just the 'rules.xml' file that will work.

If you do try it please post back and let us know what happened. Thanks.

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Thank you for your suggestion, it seems to be useful if works. Next time I'll need to do a Bitdefender re-install I'll try and post the results.

Sgmaster

Made an account to thank user "Nesivos".

Have hundreds of "Deny" firewall rules (for reasons I can't discuss here xD ) and updated from BD 2016 to 2017 without knowing that settings won't be kept.

By going to Program Files/Bitdefender/Bitdefender 2016/Settings/Firewall on a PC backup I did few days back, I was able to copy the rules.xml file which I pasted to the new 2017 folder replacing the one that was there. Bitdefender immediately imported those rules!

Pasting the file to the new location was tricky though: BD has restrictions in editing its files and no matter what changes i was doing in Windows Permissions I wasn't able to place the rules file there. What I did was create an Ubuntu live cd (usb actually) and by booting on it I was able to replace the rules.xml file without permission issues.

Thank you once again "Nesivos"!