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    Migrate from single 250GB hard drive to mirrored 80GB pair - PFI?

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      raiderj
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      I'm currently running pfSense on a single 250GB hard drive. I'm not using hardly any actual space, as I'm basically just running a single OpenVPN server to navigate WAN connections to one of two VLANs.

      Question: If I take a backup (save as conf/config.xml), will pfSense be able to install it w/ PFI during an install? All other hardware would be unchanged.

      Or, would it be best to a basic install onto the new hardware, then do a restore backup?

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        muswellhillbilly
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        If you want to play it safe, I'd go for the second choice. That way you have a rollback option if the new hardware gives you any grief.

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