Veaam and pfSense
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Ive read some reports that Veeam cannot correctly backup and restore a virtual pfSense.
Is this correct? What workarounds are recommended?
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Veeam can backup any virtual machine. Nothing special about pfSense. I have personally backed up a pfSense instance using Veeam Backup & Replication.
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have you guys tried to restore them? I have, and I was let down several times as the restore gets corrupted because it is not a consistent backup, the backup works like having an unexpected shutdown with the VM and then the file system gets corrupt.
Veeam is not safe to use with pfsense
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The only workaround would be to keep updated copies of your config.xml backup. Installing pfSense takes literally a few minutes and a config restore even less time.
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bakinc up manually config.xml has nothing to do with veeam, which is the reason this topic was created
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You must be a real blast at parties.
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Having issues for it to get to work...
When attempting to test if it works I get a
1/21/2018 1:21:39 AM :: Checking Linux credentials Error: Failed to execute command.
StdErr:Cannot elevate to SU.
StdErr:
StdOut:export: Command not found.
StdOut:export: Command not found. Cannot elevate to SU.
StdErr:
StdOut:export: Command not found.
Message.
Trying in the console to su it gives me a "su. Sorry" message.
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sudo is not integrated in pfSense by default.
However, you may install the sudo package.
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Can I assume you have disabled the Application processing & indexing and other "smart" stuff that Veeam does? I usually turn all that off for my Linux VMs.
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that is basically what makes a backup crash proof, it is like volume shadow copy in Windows, it ensures any data write is flushed to disk so a consistent backup is taken.
pfsense with Veeam is a lottery, you may have 50% success rate as a backup runs when there are no writes queued to disk. I would not use Veeam as a sole backup tool for pfsense, I got screwed a few times because of that.
Not sure if installing su on freebsd would make this work, I never tried. Keep us posted if it does
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I don't even bother backing up pfSense because like I said earlier, it's dead-simple to install fresh and import your config. It might take less time to do that than to restore from a backup.
