Hi all,
Are there a form to do a full backup of my Mikrotik systems including the configurations of the wireless Cards?
Today if I upload a backup into a new RB (an identical RB to that I’m replacing) the wireless configuration is not applied.
Are ther a form to solve it?
Thanks
Fabrício
Once you have a working configuration and want to copy that config to another MK device, this how i achive this,
From terminal use: export file=backup (use any name you want i use backup) this will place a backup script of that MK device in your “Files” in my example “backup.rsc”, drag to desktop then you will have to edit with text editor (notepad or textpad ,etc) but you will have to change file extension from *.rsc to *.txt to open the backup file, and remove mac address’s used or (device name) as they will be different in new MK device resave and rename from *.txt to *.rsc and drag to files of new device, then from terminal use: system reset and reboot, once again from terminal use: import (tab) or return (tab) and your backup file should appear, install but wait till command line reappears, if you have errors with file note line number and go back and change and if you have a error but no line number then compare from original txt tile what was installed and what was not,
I hope this will be of help if so don’t forget to give Karma
Good point there n21roadie. Last week I was trying to backup such configuration pasting
the whole exported file in terminal, with no success.
Hi n21roadie,
Sorry for tha late reply, but I was very full on the last days!
I tried this solution without success because I got a lot of errors and than I expended a lot of time doing the corrections on the backup file, more than I expendin making the manual configurations of the interfaces.
My solution was doing a backup process and than do an export just of the wireless interface configurations and than cut the MAC information out and reconfigure execute it on the new AP. This isn’t the best solution, but I can’t find any other solution.
Thanks
Hi n21roadie,
Sorry for tha late reply, but I was very full on the last days!
I tried this solution without success because I got a lot of errors and than I expended a lot of time doing the corrections on the backup file, more than I expendin making the manual configurations of the interfaces.
My solution was doing a backup process and than do an export just of the wireless interface configurations and than cut the MAC information out and reconfigure execute it on the new AP. This isn’t the best solution, but I can’t find any other solution.
Thanks
Yes it can be time consuming when errors happen, i have of recent on the backup files deleted any items not being used in my configuration, for instance if you are not using a firewall,hotspot profile,etc configuration then leave them out the default setting for any items not on your file will be used,
Also you can to speed testing up is simply copy & paste say /interface ethernet settings in and see if then transfer OK then copy & paste /interface wireless security-profiles and once again checking if transfer was OK, continue this until errors appear, also i hit return in terminal 3 times between each entered item to seperate what i am copying and pasting it makes it easier for me to read?