<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Moving pfSense and all data to different hardware]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">I have to relocate a pfSense install to different hardware. The recommended way of doing this seems to be the config backup/restore routine, but as far as I can see this is missing stuff like Squid logs, Sarg reports, etc. . I'd like to have these on the new machine, if that's possible at all.</p>
<p dir="auto">Could this be done by restoring a full backup created with the <em>/etc/rc.create_full_backup</em> script? The tgz archive created by that script seems to include the full file system. If I install the same pfSense version the backup was made with on the new machine and restore the backup with <em>/etc/rc.restore_full_backup</em>, will I get a working "clone" of the old system? Has any of you guys migrated pfSense to new hardware like that?</p>
]]></description><link>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/91537/moving-pfsense-and-all-data-to-different-hardware</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:22:10 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://forum.netgate.com/topic/91537.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:50:19 GMT</pubDate><ttl>60</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to Moving pfSense and all data to different hardware on Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:28:13 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/saschaitm">@<bdi>SaschaITM</bdi></a>:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I have to relocate a pfSense install to different hardware. The recommended way of doing this seems to be the config backup/restore routine, but as far as I can see this is missing stuff like Squid logs, Sarg reports, etc. . I'd like to have these on the new machine, if that's possible at all.</p>
<p dir="auto">Could this be done by restoring a full backup created with the <em>/etc/rc.create_full_backup</em> script? The tgz archive created by that script seems to include the full file system. If I install the same pfSense version the backup was made with on the new machine and restore the backup with <em>/etc/rc.restore_full_backup</em>, will I get a working "clone" of the old system? Has any of you guys migrated pfSense to new hardware like that?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Will you also be replacing the harddisk?  Bad is not like Windows to scream when harddisk is attached to different system..</p>
<p dir="auto">Or clone disk and plug in other machine reconfigure interfaces and test before migrating..</p>
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