pfsense autobackup
autobackup tool for backup pfsense firewall router from linux computer to git repository this script get config(or many configs) from your pfsense and autocommit it to your security repository
- requirments: git(apt-get install git), pip(apt-get install pip),python(apt-get install python) BeautifulSoup4(pip install BeautifulSoup4)
- create git repo with your own security requirements
- clone repo to destination dir
- add files from this repo to destination dir(exclude .git)
- setup your variables(admin,password...) to index.sh,
- chmod +x index.sh
- configure your crontab (add line * */2 * * * /dir-where-it-is/index.sh)
- Profit!
pfsense-backup.py from here: https://github.com/edgauthier/pfsense-backup
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.
NOTE: RRD data is no longer included by default, but can be included via command line option. See below for more details.
Requires BeautifulSoup4 to be installed:
pip install BeautifulSoup4
This has been updated to support the new CSRF token in the pfSense login page as well as backup page. It has most recently been tested with the 2.3.3, and will not work with previous releases due to a change in the backup page HTML.
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
-t <seconds> | --timeout <seconds>
Timeout for network requests.
-u <username> | --username <username>
-p <password> | --password <password>
-d | --directory <directory>
Defaults to current directory.
-r | --rrd
Includes RRD data with the backup.
-f | --file <file>
Defaults to 'pfsense-backup.xml'