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Export config from VMDK?

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    pr3dict
    last edited by 28 days ago

    I upgraded to a new machine running esxi. I migrates my datastore but did not take a backup of pfsense config before for a few reasons....

    Anyway - when booting up the new machine the interfaces are all messed up so I was hoping I could somehow extract the config from the data store? Whenever I boot the VM it automatically changes the config because it detects new hardware.

    I have a copy of the VM before I moved it to the new machine but old machine is gone.

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      SteveITS Galactic Empire @pr3dict
      last edited by 28 days ago

      @pr3dict you could try https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/backup/restore.html#restoring-by-mounting-the-disk

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        pr3dict @SteveITS
        last edited by 27 days ago

        @SteveITS thanks appreciate this. That's what I ended up doing. PITA for sure lol. Having some residual weirdness, like packages didn't come back and it won't let me install any. Saying I have an instance of pfsense already running.

        Wish there was a way to add the config I edited with my new interface names to my vmdk that had all the packages etc.

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