Just giving thanks.

[frakkin64]

I wanted to say thanks to the developers & contributors for making such a great software package.  I had an NVMe failure on my device Sunday morning around 8am, and I had to wait until 11am for the local Best Buy to open up to buy a Samsung NVMe to replace the cheap Fangxiang garbage that came with the device. 

The experience for recovery was fairly painless, the hardest part was decrypting the config.xml as I was using Google Drive as a backup for my configurations with encryption enabled.  I was fairly lucky that I had a copy of Ubuntu 25.10 Desktop on a thumb drive, so I booted the router on that, downloaded the latest OPNsense, my config, spent an hour to find out how to decrypt it manually (turns out I had a script ready on by NAS that I forgot about until after I found a few postings on the topic), but once I got the NVMe in it was pretty much give it the config file, redownload plugins, and then make config override tweaks for DHCPv6 (to pull 2 IA-PD's).

What wasn't clear was how to properly load the config.xml in the Live mode, which is why I spent a ton of time decrypting the file, what I did was dropped it into /conf and then I think it was option 12 (refresh services or something like that) on the console as a hack, and that seemed to work fine in Live mode for temporary internet.  I'm pretty sure it wasn't the proper way, but I was in a pinch for a few hours until the store opened.

The good news is I got rid of UFS and now using ZFS.  It should make it easier to just push backups to my NAS via zfs send.