Export log?

RouterOS General
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Hi,

Does anybody know if there is a way to export the Routerboard’s log to a file?

Thanks

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/system logging
add action=disk topics=info
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And can the logfile be given a custom name?

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Check the documentation: https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:System/Log#Logging_to_file

If you want to save the current log buffer to disk, use:

/log print file=log.txt
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To export the current log buffer: /log print file=anyname
Then download the file.

For continuous logging use the disk action as above, you can also set a name and number of files (it will rotate them).

For advanced usage, set logging to an external syslog server and process everything there (including saving to disk, database, whatever).

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Thanks Rob…

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If you don’t have enough storage space on your device, you can store the stdout of “ssh” directly in a file on your computer. For example:

ssh mt-device '/log print where time~"^[0-9]"' > /tmp/mt-device-today.log