Backup reliability

RouterOS General
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Can someone confirm?

How reliable is taking a backup from a RB433 and simply importing it into another RB433?? Will the backup just work?? I’ve been told because of different MAC addresses on each board, some settings from the backup will not port over correctly, hence your new RB433 will not be reliable.

If this is true, is there a way to simply clone a Mikrotik so there is a backup ready for replacing if ever needed?

Thanks in advance,

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hi.
you can use from backup file for this.

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“/export” - gives complete config with MAC addresses and everything
“/export compact” - gives only config that is different from default. Its much shorter, doesn’t contain MAC addresses, etc.

Use “/export compact” and you can easily “clone” RBs.

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i want clone rb750 to rb751g and clone dont work
Failure ip pool exists and router dont work

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First reset the 751, then connect through MAC winbox and import.

On the 751 run “/system reset-configuration no-defaults=yes keep-users=yes”

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before i go steps your instruction

reset(/system reset? ) and import (this report failure ip pool exist, first two step already go through)

what “/system reset-configuration no-defaults=yes keep-users=yes” will repair failure ip pool exist?

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3.steps

  1. /system reset
    router is reseting

  2. connect via mac with winbox
    /import file=name.rsc
    failure: ip pool is exist

“/system reset-configuration no-defaults=yes keep-users=yes”

nothing!
no conf at all
import not work, or failure not run script at all

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That is the point. After a reset-configuration your new router will be completly clean. Then you import all the config from your old one you got with “/export compact”.

That way the new router will be a “clone” of the old one.

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Import after reset-conf

  • script file loaded succ
    input does not match any value of interfaces interrupted

And no conf at all!

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Manually rename the interfaces on the new router to the same names as the old router and it should do it.

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system reset
reset-conf
this is now clean?

rename interfaces, same as rb750

import file

failure: such login name already exists

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please email support, and send us that RSC file that you are using. Also tell us what version you exported it from, and what is the version where you are trying to import it.

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support@mikrotik.com ?

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Yes, correct email. By the way, also make sure your reset command is like this “/system reset no-defaults”

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yes, /system reset no-defaults=yes (and keep-users with no and yes, both combination )is executing