Overview

Authenticates with a pfSense server and exports a backup of the configuration and statistics. If the required options aren't specified, they will be promped for interactively.

Configure cron to run this script with the necessary parameters to backup your pfSense configuration and stastics on a regular basis.

Compatability

This has only been tested against pfSense 2.0.1.

Usage

Usage: pfsense-backup.py OPTIONS

OPTIONS:

    -h | --help

    -s <server url> | --server <server url>
        The base URL for the pfSense installation.
        Example: https://pfsense.example.com/

    -u <username> | --username <username>
    
    -p <password> | --password <password>

    -d | --directory <directory>
        Defaults to current directory.