Backup & restore result in a disk failure and reboot loop

[schtebo]

Hi,
i just want to share my experience after my OPNsense failed the second time and i could not restore my xml backup file.
Restoring the xml backup file, result always in a reboot loop caused by a disk failure, but disk is/was 100% good.
Several gray hairs later ;) and spending several hours investigating this issue:
Workaround found: I had to remove these line from the backup xml file. After that, restore was successful. Anyone any idea why this result in a disk failure?

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    <IDS version="1.0.5">
      <rules/>
      <userDefinedRules/>
      <files>
        <file uuid="5bdd53f6-0552-4a45-a981-78a674e70657">
          <filename>opnsense.uncategorized.rules</filename>
          <filter/>
          <enabled>1</enabled>
        </file>
        <file uuid="837a812c-2eaa-491c-ab91-7f5240ddc4a6">
          <filename>opnsense.test.rules</filename>
          <filter/>
          <enabled>1</enabled>
        </file>
       
... 8< ....

        <file uuid="f76ddd41-0d1c-4171-896b-e1c0ddd4a333">
          <filename>abuse.ch.sslblacklist.rules</filename>
          <filter/>
          <enabled>1</enabled>
        </file>
        <file uuid="578e0b99-0a57-4c0f-865e-5d436a691c8c">
          <filename>abuse.ch.feodotracker.rules</filename>
          <filter/>
          <enabled>1</enabled>
        </file>
      </files>
      <fileTags/>
      <general>
        <enabled>1</enabled>
        <ips>1</ips>
        <promisc>0</promisc>
        <interfaces>opt2,wan,opt3,opt4,lan,opt1</interfaces>
        <homenet>192.168.0.0/16,10.0.0.0/8,172.16.0.0/12</homenet>
        <defaultPacketSize/>
        <UpdateCron>139165dc-593b-49c4-a468-03c9e8975c0e</UpdateCron>
        <AlertLogrotate>D0</AlertLogrotate>
        <AlertSaveLogs>4</AlertSaveLogs>
        <MPMAlgo>ac</MPMAlgo>
        <detect>
          <Profile>medium</Profile>
          <toclient_groups/>
          <toserver_groups/>
        </detect>
        <syslog>0</syslog>
        <syslog_eve>0</syslog_eve>
        <LogPayload>0</LogPayload>
      </general>
    </IDS>





Another workaround was, restore ALL from original xml backup file and restore only section "opnsense additions" from a clean machine xml backup file. But some important sections were missing, so this is a bad workaround.

Hope this helps anyone else running into the same issue.

BR schtebo