Recent restore points not appearing in 6100 console

Happydog

Only options I see in the console menu are List and Restore and Quit.

And, yes, I'm not seeing recent backups in the console menu. Only in Diagnostics in the GUI. I see all the backups (up to 20) in the console menu on all my other Netgate devices. But now that you mention it, I should be seeing all the other options and I'm not. I use Putty>COM3/115200 to access the console. Menu or List commands only show the above three options.

stephenw10

Hmm, so you are only seeing a reduced set of options in the console menu? And no backups listed under option 15 when you enter 1 to list backups?

Can you get a screenshot?

Happydog

The only options that appear when I putty in are 1. List, 2.Restore and Q. Quit

Odd

Gertjan

@Happydog

I should be seeing all the other options and I'm not.

So what do you see , Screenshot ?

You see option 15 :

....
0) Logout (SSH only)                  9) pfTop
1) Assign Interfaces                 10) Filter Logs
2) Set interface(s) IP address       11) Restart webConfigurator
3) Reset webConfigurator password    12) PHP shell + Netgate pfSense Plus tools
4) Reset to factory defaults         13) Update from console
5) Reboot system                     14) Disable Secure Shell (sshd)
6) Halt system                       15) Restore recent configuration
7) Ping host                         16) Restart PHP-FPM
8) Shell

Enter an option: 15

Restore Backup from Configuration History

1) List Backups
2) Restore Backup
Q) Quit

Using "1" should list the backups.

Btw : The backup files are here : /cf/conf/backup/

You are using the 'admin' (root) user, right ?

JonathanLee

@Gertjan for console option 15 it is for config changes and not restore points. It only lists the last few config changes made to go back. ZFS snap shots are not listed that I know of. I always use option 15 for going back before my last changes if I am locked out. It has time stamped recent configuration changes. It should list a way to access ZFS snapshots.

JonathanLee

This should be a feature request.

Gertjan

@JonathanLee said in Recent restore points not appearing in 6100 console:

config changes and not restore points.

Ahh, get it.

This is the subject :

Isn't that info visible during early the early boot sequence ?
Console access, not SSH.

JonathanLee

@Gertjan yes, that's how I see it too. I can only see snapshots in the GUI, again the GUI needs to work to see them. I see recent config changes in console for option 15 only.

Gertjan

@JonathanLee said in Recent restore points not appearing in 6100 console:

config changes in console for option 15 only

Way earlier.
Way before pfSense booted.
is see :

'r' -- Clear boot order list.
'p' --  PXE boot.
'F2' -- Boot Manager Menu.

The boot process for my SG4100 :
First the EFI partition, then disk0p1 and then disk0p3 where it finds the current ZFS boot environment :

FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1

(Fri Feb 10 20:27:51 UTC 2023 root@freebsd)

Command line arguments: FS5:\efi\boot\BOOTx64.efi

Image base: 0x77217000

EFI version: 2.50

EFI Firmware: Insyde May  3 2022 11:32:00 (rev 0.00)

Console: efi (0x1000)

Load Path: \efi\boot\BOOTx64.efi

Load Device: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0xB,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,B7-D7-01-D9-B9-3E-69-24)/HD(1,GPT,EBD48D0E-974A-11ED-BE66-90EC7729392C,0x28,0x64000)

BootOrder: 0003 0002 0001 0000

Trying ESP: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0xB,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,B7-D7-01-D9-B9-3E-69-24)/HD(1,GPT,EBD48D0E-974A-11ED-BE66-90EC7729392C,0x28,0x64000)

Setting currdev to disk0p1:

Trying: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0xB,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,B7-D7-01-D9-B9-3E-69-24)/HD(2,GPT,EBDF0E41-974A-11ED-BE66-90EC7729392C,0x64028,0x400)

Setting currdev to disk0p2:

\Trying: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0xB,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,B7-D7-01-D9-B9-3E-69-24)/HD(3,GPT,EBE48038-974A-11ED-BE66-90EC7729392C,0x64800,0x200000)

Setting currdev to disk0p3:

|/Trying: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0xB,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,B7-D7-01-D9-B9-3E-69-24)/HD(4,GPT,EBE8094B-974A-11ED-BE66-90EC7729392C,0x264800,0xDD30000)

Setting currdev to zfs:pfSense/ROOT/230501_20230627:

This process can be interrupted.
I'm sure I used it ones the manually select another ZFS boot environment, as I managed to 'kill' my current boot boot environment.

JonathanLee

@Gertjan you just use F2 ? PXE I know for a fact is a network boot it will go to another location on the LAN for the boot. So it's the other drive with the snapshots?

stephenw10

It's the config backup points we are discussing here, not ZFS BEs.

@Happydog said in Recent restore points not appearing in 6100 console:

It is fine in ACB and Diagnostics > etc. But not in the console. The backups there stopped months ago.

And those should list the same things in the gui and console menu. They pull from the same data source.

Happydog

Figured it out. When I open the console, it defaults to option 15. Selecting Q / Quit displays the whole menu. When select Q and then Option 15 again, all the missing backups appear. It's as if it's opening to the list page from months ago. the 6100 is the only one that does that. So maybe an FYI for other users. Thanks!

stephenw10

Hmm, well that's also weird! I've never seen that.

Does it still do that after rebooting?

Are you connecting to the serial console dircetly?

Happydog

The issue is that, when I access the console, it goes directly to Option 15. The other options are not displayed.

stephenw10

Yes but does it still do that across a reboot?

For example if you reboot from the console menu does it boot back up and straight into option 15?

Or is your terminal client somehow triggering the selection when you connect?

Happydog

I dedicate a PC to each NetGate and Teamviewer in to that. That PC is connected to the NetGate both on the LAN and with a serial connection. Works very well. Will probably add UniFi plugs on a different WiFi network as well.