pfSense

This is something that I've actually been looking into as well over the past few days in response to work on the WireGuard package. There is certainly improvements to be made here. Going back through the acb code, I found the -NoReMoTeBaCkUp override string that can disable acb on certain calls to write_config, which I'm now using and this does help...but backup on change is still a locking process in regards to the UI. I've honestly never recommended it, and have always recommended the more conservative schedule-based approach.

In addition to a service that can handle backing up in the background, do you think it would also make sense to bust acb out of pfSense proper and rebuild it as a package? Considering the work investment in building the service you're proposing, it might also be worth it to spend a little more time to convert acb to a package, that can then be maintained and updated separately...I've obviously been thinking about packages a lot over the last 2-3 months, so I'm quite partial to this more modular paradigm.

It used to be a package, we decided to integrate it into base when it was made free to all. I don't see it moving back to a package.

Marcos Mendoza wrote:

1. Navigating to Services / Auto Configuration Backup should not be affected by internet connectivity.
   Possible solution here is setting the landing page to services_acb_backup.php instead of services_acb.php.

fix:
https://gitlab.netgate.com/pfSense/pfSense/-/merge_requests/463

Tested in

2.6.0-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
built on Sat Nov 20 06:21:37 UTC 2021
FreeBSD 12.3-PRERELEASE

The landing page now goes to services_acb_settings.php so it loads much faster when there is no WAN connectivity

Marcos Mendoza wrote in #note-10:

From what I can tell, the changes that went in are for the DNS enhancements which #12141 is being used for. These changes do not include changing the main navigation link: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/blob/22f5f4d82959788bc08e96c506bebcb551e190d3/src/usr/local/www/head.inc#L321

I'm changing the redmine status for now.

main link change:
https://gitlab.netgate.com/pfSense/pfSense/-/merge_requests/586

Tested in

22.05-DEVELOPMENT (amd64)
built on Wed Apr 06 16:45:59 UTC 2022
FreeBSD 12.3-STABLE

The main link is updated and goes to services_acb_settings.php instead of services_acb.php. It is therefore, much quicker without WAN, as expected.