After restoring backup, many settings are lost.

RouterOS General
1

HI, I have been testing mikrotik routers for last few days, to find out how to solve the problems in my situation.

Today I made a backup in my active production mikrotik, and made a copy of it to my pc.
on this router everything is set fine, and works well,
all interfaces are active, wlan works good, we use it daily. ISP ip is static, and DHCP is disabled because win server which provides dhcp.
the local net ip is set to 192.168.1.1

now the problem.

as soon as I put the backup file to another same model mikrotik router, it restarts and then when I login to winbox
I see all errors,

  1. my wlan info is not there and the wlan is set to station mode, while normally is ap bridge, and all settings like, wpa codes etc… country is deleted
  2. the local net IP is changed do the gateway IP of my ISP.
    I’m sure there are other settings destroyed too,

anybody has same experience with restoring backup files ?

2

Backups reliably can be restored only on the same machine.

User /export /import instead.

3

thanks for the info.

just tried, I see that the file difference is 30 kb.

the one which is made by using backup button is 51.xx kb
the one which is made by export command is 21.xx kb

4

export/import is just like command based.
you will see the mac address will be overwrite if i not mistaken.

5

Used export and import commands to backup and restore today, after restore most settings were ok, but this :

PPPTP / users / pass

routers password

ntp settings

were lost.

but this way of restore is better, cause otherwise all is mixed up :slight_smile:

this is just for the info.

6

It cannot be lost. Open the export file in text editor and see if entries are there, probably due to some error they were not imported.

7

I checked, if I open it with notepad++ I can see the credentials of ppp users etc… so they are in the file
I also checked for NTP info, is also in the file.
I was not able to find any info on router password, I dont know if it should be in the file ? but it was not there.

8

passwords from /user menu are not exported. So after import you will have to change passwords manually for all users.