config transfer to another router

RouterOS General
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Hello! i am new at the mikrotik family and i want to make a question about the config backup and/or transfer to another mikrotik

My question is how to take a cnfiguration from a mikrotik and copy it to another even if they are not the same models

i know that a first command will be export file=backup.rsc and a file will be created to the files menu.
Taking this file and copying it to another mikrotik and then using the import file=backup.rsc will it will work? or there is something else that i need to do.

I want to appologize in case there is another post with my question but i didnt manage to find an exact answer to my question

Regards, kostas

2

on RouterOS 6.x do /export and do required changes to adapt the configuration for another router, then import it on another rotuer.

for RouterOS 5.x do /export compact (compact flag is used by default on RotuerOS 6.x)

3

My router OS is 5.26
so what i need to do is
/export compact file=backup.rsc
then copy the file from files menu and transfer(paste it) to the other mikrotik router files menu and then
/import file=backup.rsc

after that do i need to do anything else? a specific command or somthing or just a typical reboot and thats it?

4

You do not need to reboot. Configuration is applied to the router and becomes an actual configuration of the device.

Import and that is it.

I would suggest to glance over the contents of the file before upload&import.

5

The only difference in the config file is the mac address nothing else.
I suppose that i need to change according the router correct?
The rest are as configured.

6

MAC addresses should not be part of /export compact If it does - i would suggest first to upgrade to 5.x or preferable to the 6.x release.

However, if need to change MAC addresses than you can export specifically parts you are interested in, like ‘/interface ethernet export’ to get output from there.