Backup/Restore

[enesha]

Hiya again DRP It's been a kooky amount of time since the previous exchange, but I thought I would check in

Thank you for the tips on backup. Quite on point, so oh why didn't it work for me.

Well I messed up. Chugging redbull doesn't keep you alert enough lol. Hours of work, playing with my shit and smoking and I have to say, whoops

Pro tip. Even sudo can't fully save you. Make 100% sure what directory you are in, and make triple sure that you want to cp and end up with a rm -rf. So I wiped out my entire config dir, and ext4 undelete is a function based entirely on unfounded optimism. Oh and entirely not backed up. SO I got to do a transition from ubuntu server to one level up and just get pure debian. During all of this and recent storms scrambled my pfsense hd. So I used that as an excuse to install opnsense and HAproxy, as I just used jf as it's own server.

So I Transitioned to Debian in clean install
OPNsense - HAproxy - acme with LE cert
Bought tmm and slowly did a full scan/scrape/rename on everything
Full backup of opnsense and / of server.

So anyway, Thanks for the help you gave me with the backup location and commands. You are super helpful

OH - And EVERYONE - Learn from me
Please don't be arrogant enough to think you can rm -rf without double checking
sudo won't save you, only ask if you are sure you're that stupid//
And backup backup backup! You can't restore the OS with that backup you thought about last year and never did. This and the ancillary hardware and software and reconfig everything 1 backup COULD have saved me Many days of combined annoyance.

Ugh