The original post: /r/pihole by /u/TheTxoof on 2024-11-10 19:54:18.

I’m trying to set up a redundant Pi-hole using Orbital-Sync, but I’ve run into a problem that it appears only some settings are synchronized. In particular, I want to make sure that the items from the DNS screen and Advanced DNS settings section are all copied over. In particular the Custom 1(IPv4) setting and the Conditional Forwarding settings.

I’ve tried the following:

• Using Oribtal-Sync - it appears to be working, but these settings are stubbornly unchanged on the backup pi-hole after each sync.
• Using Teleporter to download the settings from the primary to a third device as a tar.gz and then restoring them to the backup pi-hole. Again the Advanced settings remain unchanged.
• I’ve tried restarting the Pi-hole service after each sync, but once again, nothing seems to impact these settings.

What am I missing? Is there another way to sync these settings?

I really want to get all the settings synchronized because I’m pretty new to all this and I’m figuring things out as I go and making changes as I learn new things. I just figured out how to get the assigned names from my Unifi DM to work on all devices using Conditional Forwarding and that’s HUGE for me.

I really don’t want to have to remember to copy the settings over manually to the backup every time I change something!