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UFW export and import rules between different servers

Asked by Pablo Pazos

I can't find how to export and import rules for different servers. It's a basic functionality I would expect UFW to have since many of us manage different servers and most of the rules for blocking traffic are the same.

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#1

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-migrate-iptables-firewall-rules-to-a-new-server

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Pablo Pazos (ppazos) said : 		#2

That link shows how to export and overwrite the whole IP tables, not just the rules added by a user via UFW.

1. I want to migrate only the rules added via UFW
2. I don't want to overwrite any existing rules in iptables when importing

There is now UFW command AFAIK that actually does that.

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#3

Rules are located:
/etc/ufw/user.rules
ipv6 - /etc/ufw/user6.rules

Copy the rules between servers. Disable UFW add rules then Enable UFW.
sudo ufw disable - Add rules - sudo ufw enable
Check status : sudo ufw status verbose

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