Mount /cf/conf NFS

[hec]

Is it possible to mount /cf/conf from NFS server?

I need a way to save the config or at least the backups to our NFS server which is doing the backups.

Pfsense 2.1

thanks

[jimp]

AFAIK, no, it's not easily possible. I thought we stripped out the necessary bits for being an NFS client but I may be wrong.

[Atlantisman]

I assume you want to do this to backup your configs. All you need to do is setup an FTP server on the backup target and use this script:

#!/bin/bash

HOST=IP  #This is the FTP servers host or IP address.
USER=USER            #This is the FTP user that has access to the server.
PASS=PASS        #This is the password for the FTP user.
dstamp=date +%Y-%m-%0e

cd /cf/conf

Call 1. Uses the ftp command with the -inv switches.  -i turns off interactive prompting. -n Restrains FTP from attempting the aut

o-login feature. -v enables verbose and progress.

ftp -inv $HOST << EOF

Call 2. Here the login credentials are supplied by calling the variables.

user $USER $PASS

Call 3. Here you will change to the directory where you want to put or get

cd /cf/conf/

Call4.  Here you will tell FTP to put or get the file.

put config.xml

chmod 777 config.xml

rename config.xml config$dstamp.xml

or

#get test.txt
bye
EOF

i have this on a daily cronjob and it works very well.