Solved Automatically backup Windows firewall rules

[Alejandro85]

I'm setting up my computer so that it back up automatically. For most files I have no problem, but now I want to include my entire firewall configuration in it.

Manually, I can just open the firewall advanced configuration and click the link to export the config, which works greatly, but now, how to do so automatically?

 

[Tookeri]

Take a look here: Netsh Commands for Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

 

[Alejandro85]

Thanks, handy link. In the end I used the following command:

netsh advfirewall export c:\temp\test.wfw

In the backup pre-events, then backup the resulting file, and deleted in a post-backup event. The bad part is that the task needs to be run under an administrator user as netsh requires elevation, but not so problem anyway.

 

[andrew129260]

Thanks for posting the solution for you in the thread itself