Acquire Backup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
This is easy to do. Log into the web interface go to Settings -> System -> Maintenance -> Backup and Restore<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scroll down to Available Backups and download.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also get the file via scp or sftp. Manual backups are located in<\/p>\n\n\n\n and auto backups are in <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ll be getting the following decrypt script from here. https:\/\/github.com\/zhangyoufu\/unifi-backup-decrypt<\/a> More notes on it below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ll need to make sure that openssl and zip are installed<\/p>\n\n\n\n Download the script with wget<\/p>\n\n\n\n Make it executable <\/p>\n\n\n\n And now we can convert the UniFi .unf backup file to a .zip<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now we can extract the zip archive. You can do this on Windows, macOS, or Linux through the GUI or you can extract with <\/p>\n\n\n\n This will extract all the files and folders to a directory named unifi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You should now see the db.gz file. This is a compressed archive of the database in BSON (Binary JSON) format. We can use the mongo-tools to convert this to a more human readable JSON format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now we can extract the archive and pipe it through bsondump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can run it through grep to filter out what you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can also dump the db to a json file with<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n More notes on the decrypt script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The decrypt script is really simple. It looks like it uses a key to decrypt the UniFi backup and then puts all the contents into a zip file. There is also an encryption script. Theoretically you can decrypt, make changes to the config and then reencrypt and restore to a server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this post we are going to extract the contents of a UniFi .unf backup. This is helpful if we need to do any sort of recovery, or need to look through the database to find system information. Acquire backup … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.incredigeek.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-3.png\")
<\/a>\/usr\/lib\/unifi\/data\/backup<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
\/usr\/lib\/unifi\/data\/backup\/autobackup<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Decrypt and Extract Backup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
sudo apt install openssl zip<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
wget https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/zhangyoufu\/unifi-backup-decrypt\/master\/decrypt.sh<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
sudo chmod u+x decrypt.sh<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
sudo .\/decrypt.sh autobackup_6.2.33.unf autobackup_6.2.33.zip<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
sudo unzip autobackup_6.2.33.zip -d unifi<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
cd unifi<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Dump database to JSON<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
sudo apt install mongo-tools<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
gunzip -c db.gz | bsondump<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
bsondump --bsonFile=db --outFile=db.json<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
#!\/bin\/sh\n\n# Authors:\n# 2017-2019 Youfu Zhang\n# 2019 Balint Reczey <balint.reczey@canonical.com>\n\nset -e\n\nusage() {\n echo \"Usage: $0 <input .unf file> <output .zip file>\"\n}\n\nif [ -z \"$2\" -o ! -f \"$1\" ]; then\n usage\n exit 1\nfi\n\nINPUT_UNF=$1\nOUTPUT_ZIP=$2\n\nTMP_FILE=$(mktemp)\ntrap \"rm -f ${TMP_FILE}\" EXIT\n\nopenssl enc -d -in \"${INPUT_UNF}\" -out \"${TMP_FILE}\" -aes-128-cbc -K 626379616e676b6d6c756f686d617273 -iv 75626e74656e74657270726973656170 -nopad\nyes | zip -FF \"${TMP_FILE}\" --out \"${OUTPUT_ZIP}\" > \/dev\/null 2>&1<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"