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Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo
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Julio Cesar Camargo is a cybersecurity professional with +15 years of experience working with open-source software. He started with Conectiva Linux and later became the official instructor helping dozens of students. As an aviation enthusiast and airplane pilot, he strives to bring all the aviation best practices to his professional routine. Julio started working with OPNsense in 2016, contributing to the project with code, official forum moderation, articles, Udemy course, and promotions in Europe. He founded Cloudfence in 2018, a cybersecurity startup and a Luso-Brazilian-managed security services firm with an open-source DNA. As its CTO, Julio aims to spread open source security as a service to companies from different parts of the world.
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Configuration backup

OPNsense saves all the configuration settings in an XML file, /conf/config.xml, and it is extremely important to save it in a safe place that will allow you to restore this configuration if it is necessary.

OPNsense offers some embedded options to save this configuration in external cloud drives such as Google Drive and Nextcloud (using an additional plugin). This book will not cover the configuration of how to use backup configuration, but you can find information at https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/cloud_backup.html. Some plugins can help with this task also; check out the OPNsense plugins list at System | Firmware | Plugins.

To back up your system configuration files, you can go to System | Configuration | Backups.

Figure 4.16 – Configuration backup and restore page

Figure 4.16 – Configuration backup and restore page

Click on the Download configuration button to download the configuration file to your computer's local disk. Check Encrypt this configuration...

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Julio Cesar Camargo is a cybersecurity professional with +15 years of experience working with open-source software. He started with Conectiva Linux and later became the official instructor helping dozens of students. As an aviation enthusiast and airplane pilot, he strives to bring all the aviation best practices to his professional routine. Julio started working with OPNsense in 2016, contributing to the project with code, official forum moderation, articles, Udemy course, and promotions in Europe. He founded Cloudfence in 2018, a cybersecurity startup and a Luso-Brazilian-managed security services firm with an open-source DNA. As its CTO, Julio aims to spread open source security as a service to companies from different parts of the world.
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