Rsnapshot Backup from pfSense Firewall ======================================= i like remote backup my pfSense from my running RSnapshot-Host Create a new "backup" user on the pfSense webgui, with the rights: User - System - Copy files User - System - Shell account access #1. Login as admin on the Firewall CLI #2. Packages Repo Update pkg update #3. Search Package rsync and install pkg search rsync pkg install rsync #4. Remove the interactive shell for user backup and create the .ssh folder cd /home/backup cp .profile .profile.org echo > .profile mkdir .ssh #5. Copy the Pubkey from RSnapshot-Host to the Firewall scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub backup@firewall:/home/backup/.ssh/authorized_keys #6. Testlogin from RSnapshot-Host (without Password): ssh backup@firewall #7. Modify the rsnapshot.conf Configfile (i backup only the xml configfiles) # Firewall backup backup@firewall:/home/ firewall.domain.net/ backup backup@firewall:/config/ firewall.domain.net/