Hi, I want to backup my RB750G, but can’t find a way, and doing a search here, give me this “No suitable matches were found.” :frowning: So please u cleaver people help me? I just want to backup my config file, I want to download it and store it on my PC, in case something happens to my RB…

have a read of http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Configuration_Management and let us know how you go.

I just logged into my RB with a FTP client, lol, And there is only one file with the name “autosupout.old.rif” if not… is there any other GUI method to do this, command line makes no sense to me, I want to see a browse, save, and download backup file from devices like most other devices

the command line can be very powerful and alot quicker once you get used to it. if you follow the instructions you should be right. Otherwise in winbox goto files, then click backup then grab the .backup file it just created and drag it onto your desktop

ah this looks better… :slight_smile: thx :slight_smile:

watch out though as i think that it will contain all your mac addresses and everything so that may not be the best solution to copying the config. you may want to look at that link on how to export the config and then remove with notepad all the mac addresses and such

What MAC’s will it store? the device is only a firewall, and splitting 2 LAN’s to make them private, but they use the same WAN (internet) DHCP client, no user management or anything..

That backup is quite useless feature. Why should one need a running system configuration image what can not be examined/observed/modified? By the nature of it you can not even replicate it to other similar pieces of hardware. Export has a true backup function. Unfortunately that command does get bro…

To backup and restore the configuration i use the following from terminal type export file=backup15Feb2011 hit return key and wait till command line returns (note you use any name for file= ) Now in your router “Files” there will be as in my example “backup15Feb2011.rsc”, drag to your compute…

For your reading pleasure: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/2-9-39-2-9-42-export-command-issues-on-rb112/11304/1 Note: That issue never got resolved. Thanks, Interesting reading but and this topic is several years old it also refers to older routerboards RB112 with much less CPU power and using OS 2…

Hi, I want to backup my routerboard :( dunno how

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Ivoshiee February 16, 2011, 2:17am 10

For your reading pleasure:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/2-9-39-2-9-42-export-command-issues-on-rb112/11304/1
Note: That issue never got resolved.