During a chat about maintaining a pfSense box…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The big trick with effective backups is to know what’s truly important & make an offsite copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The autobackup is mostly for rolling back after you fuck up changing stuff.
do a manual backup of your pfSense box whenever it pops into your head that you haven’t done so recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then copy that file to about 40 different places & removeable media\u2026
Then forget where you put all 40 copies\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
pfSense is pretty robust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just imagine if you used some proprietary “Awesome Modem, Router, WiFi, Firewall, World Hunger Solving Box” to manage your network\u2026.
Then the fucking thing overheats & dies\u2026
& your ISP ships out a completely different & unrelated, yet “BETTER” box to replace it\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At which point you have a dilemma\u2026
Which rifle to take up that tower\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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