Hi,
I have a Deciso DEC2700 as my HA Master and an APU Board as a weak HA Backup, both running OPNsense 25.1.7 . That worked so far but today I noticed that my Backup was not responsive to anything. SSH super slow. Rebooted. Took forever.
I looked at it with the Serial interface and can see every single step take forever, like every "Configuring XXX interface...done." takes about 2 minutes. After about ~20min it is now finally booted and I get SSH access.
The Backend Log shows a bunch of Timeout Errors from configd.py.
Now an interesting thing I noticed: I do a config backup through os-nextcloud-backup every day and found that through the last 10 days the XML file size has been increasing a lot each time. Started at 287 kB, then 327, 374, 467, 467, 654, 1MB, 1MB, 1MB, 1MB, 1.8MB, 1.8MB, 3.3MB, 6.3MB, 6.3MB.
Those file sizes don't correlate with anything going on on my network. I need to think whether I modified anything significant on the WebGUI but I think not.
Do you have any idea what's going on here? The Backup is basically unusable at this point.
Thank you for your support,
qj
PS: Aside from os-nextcloud-backup, I only have os-telegraf and os-cpu-microcode-amd installed on the Backup System.
I compared the config.xml files that I got from the backup and realized that I was getting an increasing amount of <vip> entries in the files. This seems to have been caused by me at the same time selecting
a) Interfaces > Virtual IPs > Settings > $EACH_of_my_VIPs > No XMLRPC Sync
b) System > High Availability > Settings > Services to synchronize > Virtual IPs
The reason I selected a) was that I wanted to set individual advskew on my HA devices but the XMLRPC sync overwrote this everytime. After selecting a) I should obviously have deselected b) but forgot.
Still don't know why it was creating an increasing amount of VIPs with every sync then but at least that resolves my issue. Hope it helps.