Backupinator

Quick setup

Use a cronjob for this, and run it as often as you would like.

git clone https://gitea.perfectra1n.com/perf3ct/pfsense-pihole-backup.git
cd pfsense-pihole-backup/
pip install -r requirements.txt

You can then run the main.py as often as you would like, and setup the Pihole / pfSense output locations using the flags shown below. If your password contains any special characters, be sure to prepend the special character with a backslash: \ when calling the script from the command line Example useage:

python main.py ~/.ssh/sshkey.pem --pihole 192.168.1.2 --user perf3ct --pihole-password Password123

Help Output:

usage: main.py [-h] (--pfsense PFSENSE | --pihole PIHOLE | --truenas TRUENAS) [--user USER] [--pfsense-output PFSENSE_OUTPUT | --pihole-output PIHOLE_OUTPUT | --truenas-output TRUENAS_OUTPUT] [--pihole-password PIHOLE_PASSWORD] [--no-secrets] [--debug] private_key

Back up Pfsense/Pihole config remotely.

positional arguments:
  private_key           Required. Please provide the path to your private key to be used to SSH into PfSense/Pihole.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --pfsense PFSENSE     Provide the IP address / hostname of the PfSense system that you wish to fetch the config of.
  --pihole PIHOLE       Provide the IP address / hostname of the Pihole instance that you wish to fetch the config of.
  --truenas TRUENAS     Provide the IP address / hostname of the TrueNas system that you wish to fetch the config for.
  --user USER           Required. Provide the username to connect as.
  --pfsense-output PFSENSE_OUTPUT
                        Optional. Provide the output name of the pfsense config file.
  --pihole-output PIHOLE_OUTPUT
                        Optional. Provide the output name of the PiHole config file.
  --truenas-output TRUENAS_OUTPUT
                        Optional. Provide the output name of the Truenas config file.
  --pihole-password PIHOLE_PASSWORD
                        Required. Provide the password for your PiHole user sudo password so that the config package can be generated.
  --no-secrets          Use to not store secrets (from Truenas)
  --debug               Optional. Use this argument if you are debugging any errors.