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      AlphaSupreme
      last edited by

      Hi,

      Been running pfsense for a year now, without any problems.
      Using HAproxy for ssl offloading.
      Since yesterday, my entire config seems to be lost.
      No installed packages, no firewall rules, no certificates, not even a default gateway.

      If I go to /usr/local/pkg, I still see all the the packages.

      Any idea's?

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        cmb
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        Go to Diag>Backup/restore, Config History tab. Should show history showing changes.

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          AlphaSupreme
          last edited by

          @cmb:

          Go to Diag>Backup/restore, Config History tab. Should show history showing changes.

          I looked there, and no changes visible. I did go back to my last change, unfortunately, that did not fix the problem.

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            muswellhillbilly
            last edited by

            Have you looked for the config.xml - or a similarly named file - under /conf? I assume you didn't take a backup any time previously and store the config elsewhere?

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              AlphaSupreme
              last edited by

              @muswellhillbilly:

              Have you looked for the config.xml - or a similarly named file - under /conf? I assume you didn't take a backup any time previously and store the config elsewhere?

              Unfortunately no  :-[, will do from now on. Guess I just have to rebuild my complete config.
              Something to do tomorrow :)

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                AlphaSupreme
                last edited by

                Although I limited the log size in the snort package, it had become over 40Gb in size.
                Deleted all the logs manually, rebooted, restored a config from yesterday, working. :)

                Going to keep an eye on my disk space from now on.
                Thnx for the help.

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                  Snailkhan
                  last edited by

                  @AlphaSupreme:

                  Although I limited the log size in the snort package, it had become over 40Gb in size.
                  Deleted all the logs manually, rebooted, restored a config from yesterday, working. :)

                  Going to keep an eye on my disk space from now on.
                  Thnx for the help.

                  could there be some way to keep an eye on such space via snmp ? syslog ?

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