Managing & Maintaining pfSense

• 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