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      darkoyan
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      good morning, I wanted to restore a backup in a new cloud machine we have, and for deployment issues we cannot do it via webGUI. Is it possible to restore a backup, directly from console commands?

      thank you in advance

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Yes

        1. Copy the config to the firewall (scp, for example, or mount a USB drive and copy)
        2. Move/rename the new config to /cf/conf/config.xml
        3. Remove the config cache: rm /tmp/config.cache
        4. Reboot

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