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Backup config files can be corrupt (check)!! You might have a problem, with recovery :(

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    louis2
    last edited by Nov 8, 2020, 4:54 AM

    Hello,

    In the past months I needed to recover my system a couple of times (due to testing), which did not work!! The reason: "a corrupt backup-config-file".

    The problem is, that at least my configuration dumps (created via diagnostics backup and restore), there are "semi double entrys" which are not accepted by the xml-config-loader (line 89), during the recovery procedure.

    In my case the xml-lines related to the xmldata for IPV4 and IPV6 did occur twice, in the config! And .... so that entry is not unique any more ...

    In my case the "semi double" entrys where related to:
    <dhcpddata>
    <dhcpdv6data>
    No idea if the problem is unique for "dhcp" !!

    The temporally way out is for this problem, is to delete the second entry for those two occurrences (<dhcpddata>, dhcpdv6data>)

    Please check your backup-ed config files for this problem, so that you do not have a problem, at the moment you need them !!!

    The error did occur again (and again), when creating a new backup-file, after a clean install with a manually corrected config file!

    The used recovery procedure is described at https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/restore-during-install.html)

    Louis

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      _rp
      last edited by Nov 12, 2020, 4:45 PM

      Ditto, I also had this.

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by Nov 12, 2020, 5:20 PM

        https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/11050

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          Gertjan @louis2
          last edited by Nov 13, 2020, 6:29 AM

          @louis2 said in Backup config files can be corrupt (check)!! You might have a problem, with recovery :(:

          <dhcpddata>
          <dhcpdv6data>
          No idea if the problem is unique for "dhcp" !!

          See https://forum.netgate.com/topic/157298/warning-do-not-update-with-todays-1-10-snapshot?_=1605248768615

          It's probably a recent version of 2.5.0 that exposed this issue.

          No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
          Edit : and where are the logs ??

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            viktor_g Netgate
            last edited by Nov 13, 2020, 4:06 PM

            Fixed in the latest snapshot

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