backup/restore vs import/export

RouterOS General
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Hi all,
I need to make configuration file to be installed into MT based CPEs once these are placed at Customer’s premises. Files are different based on frequency, location, device name, etc…

What I currently do is to do a backup from a CPE in order to have a “template” configuration that can be restored an all needed CPEs.
The problem is that, when restore is done, CPEs parameters are different from what I expect to be: device name, interface name, SSID, etc…
Is backup/restore procedure restricted to a single device? E.G. doing a backup on a device, the obtained .backup file can be restored only on the same device.
If yes, might this be solved doing several export on desidered configuration sections (IP, firewall, PPP, etc…) and building a single .rsc file to be imported on desired devices?

Thanks

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Hi cpresto!
If you use backup, all your mac addresses will be replicted, and that isn’t good!
What I do is:
At the “original” client, using terminal:
export file=myconfig

then I reorder things a little (for example, make sure security profiles are declared before they are needed)
I erase everything that is standard (what you find after doing a system reset)
I erase Mac-Address so the original one is left in each router
And then, I do
import myconfig
on each client, changing the script as needed on each client

Hope that works for you.

Chofex

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Thank you Chofex,
this is exactly what I’m doing after my post… :smiley:

Rgds