Configuration management and version control

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi All,

We have several dozen Mikrotik devices. I am looking for related tutorials for configuration management. Specifically, I want to grab /export backups and compare to previous backups. Using git seems popular these days but I am not averse to other version control systems if that proves to be simpler and easier to manage. While manually comparing is doable, I much prefer an automated method with related daily email notifications of changes.

I am planning a remote logging server. While that avenue should alert me of logins and the like, I still want the ability to compare actual changes to any device configuration.

I am not interested in Windows solutions as we are pretty much a Linux shop. :slight_smile:

Thanks much. :slight_smile:

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We installed cbackup recently and it is quite nice. The only problem that we have been having with it is there seems to be no way to remove the time/date printout from the /export command, so each time it shows a change from the last version, the current date and time. That makes it hard to see actual changes in the devices.

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My search-fu was way off I guess. Looks like the following are popular here: Oxidized, RANCID, rConfig, Unimus.