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[ColeTrain]

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.

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https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=15735.0


As this thread said

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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.

[cookiemonster]

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.

[franco]

Better to turn off backups in System: Settings: Misc -- likely caused by a damaged netflow backup

[ColeTrain]

Thank you!

[ColeTrain]

Better to turn off backups in System: Settings: Misc -- likely caused by a damaged netflow backup

you 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?

[feld]

Better to turn off backups in System: Settings: Misc -- likely caused by a damaged netflow backup

I also encountered this damaged netflow backup problem. It was preventing the firewall's ability to boot. I manually deleted the /conf/netflow.tgz and cleaned out /var/netflow. I'm turning off the "Capture Local" netflow setting that saves data locally because this is just too dangerous to have such a situation where the firewall can fail like this.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

IMHO best run only the netflow collector on OPNsense and push the data to an external system built for the task like ElastiFlow.