Unable to restore configuration on Nano image of 17.7

[hirschferkel]

I copied the Nano installation on a Flash drive and booted the router. Everything worked fine, i logged in with the basic account root/opnsense and restored the old backup. This worked fine for one flash card.
The router works fine with it...

So, now, I wanted to store a backup on another flashcard without having to switch of our router. To do so I started the same routine again, BUT: With two different Flash cards it does not work this way anymore.

I log into the basic installation - which actually gets booted - choose the backup and click restore and after this ... the router will not boot anymore from this flash drives.

What am i doing wrong? It worked once but now i fail and i do not know why...and I do not know how to find the error. I'm working in OS X...

Best, hirschferkel

[bartjsmit]

Are you using dd to copy the card or one of the same model?

Bart...

[hirschferkel]

Yes i'm using dd rdisk
It's a different model, but there was a working PFSense installed on it, which i overwrote, now.

As i wrote i can log in the first time, but i even can't reboot, with only the Nano image installed and without any restore of a backup. Hitting restart from GUI ends in nothing... kind of wired. Don't know what to do?

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sudo dd if=/Users/xxx/Downloads/OPNsense-17.7-OpenSSL-nano-amd64.img of=/dev/rdisk1 bs=4m
Password:
768+1 records in
768+1 records out
3221233664 bytes transferred in 3712.165652 secs (867751 bytes/sec)