On 3/5/12 9:26 PM, Chris Buechler wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Ugo Bellavance <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think I lost my config.xml. Well I do have a backup, but I worked like 1 >> hour on the config tonight and I'd like to recover the file. This is what I >> did (I think): >> >> - Install pfsense on the HDD, play with it (and probably make config changes >> - Reboot for some reason and forget that the CD is still in and boot in >> livecd mode >> - Make a lot of changes in the firewall aliases >> - Add vNics and reboot to enable the new nics (what that needed anyway? Is >> there a way to tell pfsense that new nics have been hot-added?) > > FreeBSD doesn't have support for hot-added NICs, I believe that > capability is Windows-only. > > >> - Realize that all my configs are gone :(. >> >> Is there any way to recover the lost config.xml? >> > > If you're running from the live CD without a formatted disk to save > the config, it's strictly in RAM, gone and unrecoverable when you > reboot. > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >
I run my pfSense off the CD but I save my config to a thumb drive. But I wonder, if you were to run pfSense off an hdd would it be an easy thing to have the config file saved to a thumb drive in addition wherever it goes to on the hdd? What I'm getting at is, just slap a thumb drive into any pfSense box as a matter of SOP and you're guaranteed to have at least one backup for you precious, precious rules whether you're using a live CD or hdd installation. Or is that just too much work for such a low probability event? eric _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
