Managing & Maintaining pfSense - Paiet/Tech-Journal-for-Everything GitHub Wiki

  • Planning Backup & Best Practices
    • Before and after changes (offline)
    • autobackup created before changes (online)
    • Test backups
  • Backup
    • Diagnostics> Backup & Restore
      • Backup area
      • Skip RRD
      • Encryption
      • Download Configuration as XML
    • AutoConfigBackup Package & pfSense gold
      • Based on FQDN (e.g. pfSense-Gamma.itprotvdemo.com)
      • Settings
    • Manual Backup
      • Diagnostics> Backup & Restore
        • Backup Now
  • Restore Configuration
    • Diagnostics> Backup & Restore
      • Restore area: all
      • Restore Configuration
  • Bare Metal Restore Hardware Failure (e.g. Disk Failure) or replacing hardware
    • Install pfSense on new hardware
    • Do initial configuration
    • Install AutoconfigBackup Package
    • Diagnostics> Restore
    • Reboot