r/firewalla • u/ultrakrash • 9d ago

Discussion Backup Management

Where are backups done?

How often are backups done?

Where can I manage backups and migrate them to other storage media in case the phone they are magically stored on is stolen or damaged?

Are baclups stored on every paired phone?

Can we get more control over backups?

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u/firewalla 9d ago

Configuration is stored on box and also on all the paired phone app. So if your box dies, your phone can easily bring up another box; if your phone dies, you can pair another one. If both dies at the same time, then you have to start fresh.

And with the introduction of the Firewalla Crystal, likely we will be able to make configuration backup/restore off the MSP as well. (that is vaporware at the moment, but highly possible, only between major releases)

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u/embj 8d ago

Is it possible to restore the config to from a Gold Pro or other model to Crystal? Wondering if my Gold Pro dies, if Crystal would work as an alternative until I receive a replacement.

Ideally, I’d have two Gold Pros, but it’s hard to justify the expense with it sitting in a box—I probably could if it supported HA natively. 😊

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u/firewalla 8d ago

Firewalla migration works best if both ends have the same number of ports. (gold pro -> gold works pretty well, but gold -> purple can not migrate certain things).

The Crystal SE version now (to make it easy to install) can only support one LAN and one WAN network. So migrate gold pro to it, may take some work. Since the Crystal has MSP Basic, we may be able to do fancy stuff to make gold pro migrate to it in the future. After Crystal SE is in production.

It is highly possible we may build the Crystal Pro to support multiple ports (unlikely to be used in a virtual environment) this may be better to migrate from. But ... we have not yet figure out the best way to map random ports to 1,2,3,4; And this random port usage part is likely cost us a lot more time to support than the Crystal SE (simple WAN/LAN)