Have made a setup and went trough a bit of a learning phase on a RB951G-2HnD with installed Version 6.36.3, ended up with a decent working and using the wireless-rep.
So today I was going to setup up the second one hoping to just do a simple backup and restore between the two to save some time and just do some minor changes on the second one.
So when doing update I did see that latest version is now 6.37 and maybe that is the reason for that trying to restore goes so very poorly.
Findings, (might help some new ones like me)
You need the same user to be able to restore a backup file, so if you changed the name of the user you have to have the same name and I believe the psw as well.
You can not from “Files” run a “export file=xxx”, script file, needs to go into scripts.
The script file and I suppose the backup file? have a mac address statement that corresponds to where it was done.
Doing the upgrade and config reset and running the backup-file miss on loads of settings and does not even get the basics right.
Doing the upgrade and config reset and running the script file miss on loads of settings and does not even get the basics right.
So as far as I can see the only use I have of the backup script is to chop it up and run the segments that works and doing the missing parts manually, maybe this is caused by backup made on 6.36.3 and trying to restore on 6.37? But on the other hand the script language could not have changed that massively not to be able to get proper mode (ap) and mac-list and some simple firewall rules and settings restored or?
I will try to downgrade to 6.36.3 and see if this works as bad or a bit better restore wise, at the moment not to impressed to be honest.
You should not confuse the matter by using “backup”/“restore” when in fact you are doing “export”/“import”…
Backup and restore should only be done on the same device, because the file contains hardware dependent
info like MAC addresses. Ok, when you know what you are doing you could first write down the MAC addresses
of the new device, then restore the backup, then correct all the MAC addresses again.
This is especially important when the two devices are going to be part of the same network (ether or wlan).
Export is a different thing. It shows all the settings, but unfortunately there is no easy way to load an export
done on a different device, overwriting the current settings, and have control over it.
You can do a “reset configuration” with “no default settings” and “run after reset” script where you specify
your exported file that you first upload to the new device, but when anything goes wrong you are left with
an inaccessible router (especially in the case of this model which has no RS232 port), and no way to diagnose
what went wrong.
Plus, you still need to remove all MAC addresses from the export file using an editor or else you will have
the same problem described above.
I have just finished doing exactly what you want on a new RB951 and I know what you are experiencing…
There should be an easier way to do it. I have opened a support case for it some time ago, hopefully
something will be improved, like possibility to import a new config with debug output.
@pe1chl,
Thanks for sorting this out.
Makes it a bit of a hazel and a lot of hands on if I want to do several similar setup’s with just some minor changes.
Had manage to destroy the mac but fortunately I had it in a early backup of the second box, so that did solve it self.
I did revert via the “files” upload pkg files and using downgrade under packages.
Things looks like it did work, but one thing that do differ is on the first box upgraded to v6.36.3 some days ago the packages view/structure have a “tree look” with the version as root folder but my downgraded from v6.37 to v6.36.3 it’s a “flat structure” with no root folder? do that matter or is it pure cosmetic’s?