MT Backup/Restore silly joke !!!!

RouterOS General
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Hi guys.

Last night was a long night of work for me. This is why.

I found out that the hard drive of my router was dying (the led was always on, and the router didn’t seem to be able to write to disk). So i restarted it and it turned on and MT loaded up (the hard drive was also making the unmistakeble sound of failure). I tried to make a backup through winbox and it did it, so i transferred the backup to my PC. I changed the hard drive and reinstalled MT. Until here everything was fine.
I copied the .backup file to the router and tried to restore it, but here everything comenced to go bad. I got a message “cannot restore, file too short (6)”. I tried to reupload the file and do the restore from telnet. No luck.
I found a older .backup file of my router (made months ago) and tried to restore it, no luck again “file to short…” message kept showing up.

So i decided to reconfigure the router from scratch, and it took to me 4 hours… :frowning::frowning:

This made me think.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a tool that tests the .backup files and maybe repair them?? And again, wouldn’t it be nice that the .backup file be in plain text format, like a .conf file (so when something goes wrong you can at least read part of the configuration from a damaged .backup file???

What do u think?

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Hi,

yes. A textfile would be real good. I dont expect it to be as short as
cisco configs are. But it would give us a chance to handle this file
and have a chance in our darkest hours :wink:

Of course you should be aware that hard discs are dying. It’s just
a matter of time. So some hints to avoid this situation:

  1. No Harddisc (flash memory has a chance to live longer)
  2. Mirror Disks
  3. Vmware. Have you tried to run ROS in VMWare Server?
    This gives you the flexibility to move your router around, snapshot it, …

Stefan

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well well .. please read the manual:
http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/system/management_content.php#.61.3

RouterOS does have a text conf file, and you should use it for backup purposes. the backup file ‘too short’ probably means it was corrupted, or it didn’t finish making it.

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Well Normis. You are so right. I’m begining to become these lazy persons that ask before reading.. :frowning: :frowning:
In the future i’ll try to read more.

Many thanks.

Best regards

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And why have a button labeled “backup”?

The txt export comes out in the wrong order for an import if done from the root.

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clarify please