How to use an extra disk with CHR on AWS EC2?

RouterOS Beginner Basics
1

I followed the instructions the wiki to setup CHR at Amazon. All worked great - just cloned the AMI into my account and changed the VPC to allow access.

I actually wanted to backup the new CHR to AWS cloud storage (S3) via a script on CHR (since we store a lot of saved config files/backups there). However, it doesn’t look possible with “/fetch upload=yes”… since RouterOS uses FTP for upload and Amazon’s S3 could storage can only HTTP for upload.

To workaround this, I created another/2nd disk to use to keep MikroTik backups. The 2nd drive is associated with the CHR EC2 instance. However, the CHR never shows the new disk. The disk is unformatted and according to Amazon mounted at “/dev/sdf”, but “/disk print” show no disks.

Maybe its the /dev mount point, but couldn’t find anything on the forums or wiki on how this all works in CHR…

Any ideas?

2

Has this been resolved? I’m experiencing the same issues in AWS when trying to mount a new volume to a CHR for my Dude DB and related files.

Every mount I’ve tried seems to brick the CHR until removed (and I usually need to detach all but eth0 to get it to boot again).

3

Hello, coreyclamp!

It seems that the issue was solved in latest RC.


Thank you!