My RB750GL just crashed. Was able to get it back online by rebooting it, but it’s acting crazy. Nothing seems to be routing, and if I look at my firewall rules, the rules keep shifting around by themselves. I’m having to hotspot my phone just to get to the forum for some help. Anyone seen this happen before? Any suggestions?
The usual steps: reset to default and recreate your config, then netinstall and rework, next mikrotik support, and finally RMA…
And who is Fritz and what is he doing under your router?
So I got back online after a factory reset, but I am unable to restore from my backup. The router keeps telling me “Bad Password” on the backup file, even though I never set a password. This is frustrating, as I had way too much going on in my config to remember…any thoughts?
Is there any way to view the contents of the backup file so that I can at least see the config I had in place to manually rebuild it?
Back online, but still seeing some serious wonkiness in the firewall page of webfig. All my rules keep moving around…
Restoring from backup is wrong. It will put your router in the same state it was before, if the behavior is not related to OS corruption. It is basically equivalent to a reboot…
Do an export and restore it on a fresly installed router. This will drop any garbage present in the routers brains (and which is saved into the backup, but not in the export).
I’ll have to try that. I was able to get back online after restoring from my backup, but as previously stated, when viewed through Webfig, all my firewall rules constantly shift around. However, if I look at it through Winbox, everything appears normal.
At this point, I’m very cautious about making any changes (restore from export, rebuild from scratch, etc.) as I’ve got the darn thing working…I don’t want to risk it going belly-up on me again.
Does that happen on all browsers? Have you tried from different computers? Just trying to isolate if it’s a browser problem…
Happens in both Chrome and Safari on OS X, as well as Chrome on Windows 7. Can’t even get it to load at all in IE11.
I’m with docmarius, IMHO a netinstall is mandatory.
Make first an export and store the resulting .rsc safely (/export file=RouterBackup) prior to the netinstall, that’s the proper way to generate a portable configuration export; backups are valid for a given device and ROS version only.