[pfSense] Backup File Conversion

[Sam Pfanstiel]

It's not line 221 of the config, but line 221 of rules.debug, which appears to be a generated file based on the XML restore file.

No matter how we go about restoring on the 2.0 platform from backups made on the 1.2.0 platform (i.e., backing up specific portions from 1.2.0 -- aliases, firewall rules, nat -- and restoring them individually on 2.0; restoring only specific portions of the larger config) the same errors occur.

The only way I was finally able to get around this was by setting up another 1.2.0 machine (I used a Parallels VM), restoring the 1.2.0 config, upgrading to 2.0, then exporting that config and restoring the desired portions (aliases, firewall rules, nat) to the desired server.

Sam Pfanstiel
S4F, Inc.
support at s4f.com
888-390-2224

On Sep 28, 2011, at 9:30 PM, Chris Buechler wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Sam Pfanstiel <sam at s4f.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to move from one pfSense server, which is in production and running 1.2.0, to a newly configured server that is running a fresh install of 2.0.  However, the backup from the 1.2.0 server will not "restore" on the 2.0 server.  I am receiving errors that resemble:
>> 
>> 02:05 - [filter_load]There were error(s) loading the rules: /tmp/rules.debug:221: syntax error
>> 
>> It sounds like the XML rule format from the 1.2.0 config are not compatible with how 2.0 expects to see it.  Is there a conversion utility that will output a configuration file with the appropriate syntax?
>> 
> 
> That's automatically handled. There is a problem of some sort in the
> config causing that, what's on line 221 in that file?
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