random sFTP connection attempts

[Tamas Halmai]

Hi,

I am running OPNsense 25.7.9 and succesfuly enabled automated sFTP backup to my local NAS every day at 10:00.

So, far so good. But, I have noticed in the System -> General log that the FW randomly tries to make an sFTP attempt around 02:00 every day. Since my NAS is switched off during night the sFTP connection obviously fails.

Could you please advise how I could disable these particular unwanted connection attempts?

Thanks in advance,

Tamas Halmai

[Patrick M. Hausen]

If you configure any of the automated backup plugins (SFTP, Nextcloud, git, ...) OPNsense will run a backup every night at 2:00. No need to configure an explicit cron job if daily backups are enough for you.

[Tamas Halmai]

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for coming back to me. Now, at least I can understand the reason for that unsuccessful sFTP attempt around 2 AM.

Since at that timeframe my NAS is intentionally down I had to configure an automated sFTP cron job, and as you can see in the attachment that is successful.

Would that be possible to disable the default one @ 2 AM because that is contra-productive?

Thanks,

Tamas Halmai

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Not that I know - best probably open an issue on Github asking the time to be configurable for example.