I use RouterOS v6.46.8(logn-term).
I write I script to backup locally graph data and then backup it to external FTP server.
I NEED to create automaticaly directory because the name of directory is derived from actual time and date, I WANT to execute a backup of graphs data downloaded from local device.
I use I code like the follow.
# Backup graph data to $LocalSavePath
...
# Backup to FTP
# Dir all file in sub-directory $LocalSavePath
:foreach i in=[/file find name~("^".$LocalSavePath) ] do={
:if ([:len [:find [/file get $i type] "file"]]>0) do={
:local FileName [/file get $i name]
:local FTPServerSavePath ($FTPServerSavePathRoot.$DateTimeCode."/".[:pick $FileName [:len $LocalSavePath] [:len $FileName]]
:set Status 7
:do {
# :put ("Testpoint : FTP Status=".$Status)
:do {
/tool fetch address=$FTPServerAddres port=$FTPServerPort mode=ftp user=$FTPServerUsername password=$FTPServerPassword upload=yes src-path=$FileName dst-path=$FTPServerSavePath
:set Status -1
} on-error={
:set Status ($Status-1)
:put ("Testpoint : FTP Status=".$Status)
:delay 10
}
} while ($Status>0);
:if ($Status<0) do={
:put ("Testpoint : FTP OK")
} else {
:put ("Testpoint : FTP Error")
}
}
}
Where for example:
$LocalSavePath = “uSD/Report/”
$FileName = “uSD/Report/graph/cpu/daily.gif”
$FTPServerSavePathRoot = “Router_Report/”
$DateTimeCode = “20201130-1023” (Deriverd from Time & Data at backup moment)
The result is:
FTPServerSavePath = “Router_Report/20201130-1023/graph/cpu/daily.gif”
The folder “20201130-1023” do NOT EXIST, and I CANNOT create it manualy, because the name was created on the fly.
And the fecth now respond failed to copy the file.
If I log-in to the FTP server from a Windows Client with the SAME username and password used in script I can creare folders.
Then the script can make the upload, so NOT is a problem of config, so NOT is a problem of device settings and permissions.
As described in my forum post http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/super-easy-script-to-create-dir/145032/1
So as fecth create local destination folder if not exists when DOWNLOAD. It CAN create directory path if not exist when UPLOAD a file to a remote server.
Because there in NOT another method in Mikrotik language script to create folder.
I ask to Mikrotik if they can implement this simple thinks.
If similar requests will be from users, then we will check on how to implement such a feature Create a directory on the remote FTP server, in the future.
How many people think this is a good think ?