migrating to a netgate apliance

[smokinjo]

Hello,
I am a pfsense user fro quite some time.

I was recently able to get my hands on a used netgate 4100 at a very reasonable price.

Assuming that both the appliance and my current server with pfsense installed have the same version of pfsense:

I was wondering if it might be as simple as downloading the config file from my current server, and uploading them to the 4100 appliance?

Thanks

Joseph

[SteveITS]

@smokinjo You can restore forwards to a new or same config version:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/restore-different-version.html

Restore will prompt you to assign interfaces. Click Save there before you click Apply.

Super easy as long as you have the same number or fewer interfaces on the old router.