HA and FRR

[WaffleIron]

Hello,
Looking for guidance on an issue I'm running into regarding HA sync and running FRR.

I have two opnsense boxes running in HA and both are running FRR (specifically BGP).  They are NOT running CARP.

From a design/functionality standpoint everything is working as expected.  However, when the XMLRPC sync occurs it forces a restart of the FRR services on the backup/slave which causes BGP sessions to drop and re-establish.  The master's FRR service continues to run fine.

How can I stop this from happening?  I even tried removing FRR from XMLRPC sync but the service restart still occurs.