Hi, the situation is, I updated to 24.7.12. Everything seemed fine.
[I needed to move some plugs around]
Pressed "shutdown" on the GUI. GUI said it was shutting down.
A minute or so went by.
it had not shut down so I used the terminal screen "5 Power off the system"
[did my stuff]
went to turn it back on. As said in this post.
tar: Retrying...
tar: Damaged tar archive
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tar: Damaged tar archive
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https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=15735.0 (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=15735.0)
As this thread said control-c saved the day. It just booted.
As the thread said, I have now, (not before) "System: Settings: Miscellaneous and set "disable" for all periodic backups."
I am on the "hobbyist" side of the experience fence here. I am scared to death to reboot. I powered off to add a UPS, so that is good, but one day I will have to update. Perhaps my double "shut down" didn't let the periodic backup work?
DO YOU THINK ALL IS SAFE? Or should I reinstall and restore configs? I don't have a broken device do I? I have not touched it as its working.
Thank you in advance.
First of all, save the current config stratight away just in case. I trust it is obvious to save it to somewhere not the OPN machine itself.
In my opinion you want to find out now not later after more configuration changes, so I would reboot now and have ready an available install image and a machine you can work from. No internet will be fine if you have downloaded the image and can then create a live installer ie liveusb.
Better to turn off backups in System: Settings: Misc -- likely caused by a damaged netflow backup
Thank you!
Quote from: franco on January 21, 2025, 11:32:48 AMBetter to turn off backups in System: Settings: Misc -- likely caused by a damaged netflow backup
Quote from: cookiemonster on January 21, 2025, 10:45:23 AMyou want to find out now not later
Well, I turned off backups as above. had a backup and installer ready. The reboot went without any issue.
Dare I try turning the backup back on? Or just leave it off forever?