Automatic Restore of Aliases and Rules

[waldimort]

I would like to have a cron job which checks and fetches backup.xml files for aliases and rules. I have few remote firewalls and it would save me a lot of time if I could just send the updated config files to a ftp folder. And the pfsense is collecting and restoring them.
Is a solution out there already?

I know this is a security weakness. If I could use a password...?

regards

[stephenw10]

Anything is possible with the right script.

But as you right pointed out there are security implications to that.

You might consider using URL aliases which are already setup to pull lists from remote servers.
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/firewall/aliases.html#url-aliases

Have a look here for some ideas:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/remote-backup.html#alternate-remote-backup-techniques

Steve