HDD to SSD - Easy or complete re-install of pfSense?

Wakesk8r · May 30, 2015, 6:48 PM

Greetings fellow nerds!

Doing my 2nd build on a mini-pc for a SOHO setup. Firewall and Router, may snort a lil. Anywho, is it possible to take this brand new dell, install pfSense on the HDD, and when my SSD comes in next tuesday, swap them w/o having to re-install?

Thanks in advance.

-\ Wakesk8r /-

kejianshi · May 30, 2015, 6:52 PM

Yes and no - You will need to do a simple 2 minute base install on the new drive and then restore the config (another 1 minute) from your current setup.

Wakesk8r · May 30, 2015, 7:09 PM

Thank you kejianshi!

pfcode · Aug 6, 2015, 1:54 AM

@kejianshi:

Yes and no - You will need to do a simple 2 minute base install on the new drive and then restore the config (another 1 minute) from your current setup.

Does the restore process restores all the settings of installed packages? so that they can be used after re-installing all these packages so that we don't need to setup each package again (e.g. SNORT rules for WAN and/or LAN)?