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    PfSense Unable to Restore Config File

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      spiritfly
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      I have had pfsense running for a few months now on an older PC with USB stick. Back then, I wasn't aware that there is another version for thumb drives of pfsense, so I've installed the regular version.

      Someone here at this forum suggested that I should install the memstick version to avoid destroying my thumb drive.

      Well I backed up my config and installed the memstick version on my usb drive. However when trying to restore the config file nothing happens. I'm trying to restore it through the web panel. The pfsense restarts and when it boots again it prompts for setting the interfaces again like it's a new installation. I set them up again and login into the web panel, but everything is reset. So it's like the config restoration doesn't happen at all. It doesn't show any error about it during boot so it's really weird.

      Please try to help me out here, I've had a really neat dual-wan setup with lot's of configurations on which I spent days configuring. Now I'm really stuck and back to the primitive.

      NOTE: Nothing is changed on the PC hardware, interfaces etc.. The version was the latest 2.1.5 on both. The only difference is that I've now installed the memstick version.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        You don't want the memstick version. That acts exactly like the install CD, it will run live but won't remember any changes.
        Use the NanoBSD version.

        Steve

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