Normally importing a exported rsc file from V6 to V6 is no problem but this time I notice that OSPF has changed on V7 !
/routing osfp network no present
area= backbone not present
/routing/ospf> add interface=OSPF_Loopback network=broadcast passive=yes
bad command name add (line 1 column 1)
[admin@CCR2116] > /routing ospf network
bad command name network (line 1 column 15)
[admin@CCR2116] > add area=backbone network=10.0.0.0/8
bad command name add (line 1 column 1)
[admin@CCR2116] > add area=backbone comment=OSPF_Loopback network=10.111.0.202/32
You cannot do that. It cannot be done in general, but in this case it becomes more apparent due to the big changes in routing.
You need to edit your export to conform to v7 syntax before you can import it.
I have suggested before that MikroTik could make the automatic v6->v7 syntax converter (internally used by the router when you upgrade) available as a separate tool or webpage for situations like this. But right now, it is not available.
Easiest would probably be to get a spare router that has v6 (or can be downgraded to v6), import the v6 config on there, then upgrade it to v7 and export to have the file to be imported on the v7 router.
But indeed it would be much easier when the converter (crossfig) would be available standalone.
Many thanks for this guidance. I spent several hours yesterday trying to set up the routing table before I saw this thread. I am moving a V6 config from an RB2011 to V7 on a hAP3 ac3, via a 962 doing the upgrade. The process seems to have worked correctly (not fully tested yet) EXCEPT that the five Ethernet ports are reversed relative to their labels on the back of the hAP3. So what was WAN on Ether 1 on the RB2011 is now on Ether 5 on the hAP3 although the config in Winbox says the WAN is on Ether 1. Is this a known issue?
I had previously gone the export/import route but so was surprised by the sparse content of the import that I tried backup/restore instead. I found, with export/import, that some basics were configured, the VLANs for example, but there was no sign of IP addresses, DHCP servers, lists or firewall rules for example. Also, with a verbose export, there were numerous points during the import that it stopped with a duplication warning.
I am resigned to building the v7 config from scratch. Actually, if I had the option I would have rolled the hAP3 back to v6.49.8 but I don’t think I can go back before 7.6
Yes, when you have done a restore from another device, you MUST reset configuration to default and start again.
(or even better use netinstall with configuration reset)