SFTP upload with variable

RouterOS Scripting
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The following works fine:

:global backupfile; :global backupname; /tool fetch url=" sftp://10.0.0.2/path/to/filename.backup" user=usr password=passw upload=yes

but I am trying to upload a weekly backup so the name of the file is always different. It worked using FTP fine previously using $backupfile in src-path but if I try src-path with SFTP it fails and disconnects the SFTP connection.

Is it possible to use a variable in SFTP upload or can anyone thing of a workaround?

This is what I have tried so far and it doesn’t work.

:global backupfile; :global backupname; /tool fetch url=" sftp://10.0.0.2/path/to" src-path=$backupfile user=usr password=passw upload=yes

and

:global backupfile; :global backupname; /tool fetch url=" sftp://10.0.0.2/path/to/$backupfile" user=usr password=passw upload=yes

Thanks

2

I think I need to combine both my attempts and set the variable on the URL and the src-path for it to work.

3

OK ignore me. I must have not had the variable set correctly. The following works now for me:

:global backupfile; :global backupname; /tool fetch url=“sftp://10.0.0.2/path/to/file/$backupfile” user=usr password=passw upload=yes

4

I tried the same (I just changed the sftp settings up there) but didnt work.

Can you provide more details about your solution?

5

Are you also using a variable $backupfile or have you removed that part?

If you enter the command directly in a terminal does it give an error message?

Can you post the command you are trying (removing anything sensitive)?

Is the path you are trying valid?

6

Thanks for your reply!!

Are you also using a variable $backupfile or have you removed that part?

Im using it
(Im kind of new in scripting)

If you enter the command directly in a terminal does it give an error message?

This message:
“status: failed
failure: Is a directory”

Can you post the command you are trying (removing anything sensitive)?

there is

/system backup save name=([/system identity get name] . [:pick [/system clock get date] 7 11] . [:pick [/system clock get date] 0 3] . [:pick [/system clock get date] 4 6] . ".backup"); 
/
:global backupfile; :global backupname; /tool fetch url="sftp://10.10.1.1/home/SFTP/userhere/Files/$backupfile" user=userhere password=passhere upload=yes



Is the path you are trying valid?

yes, I did make a upload with the default autobackup.backup archive sucefully in the same path.

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Thanks. And if you look in your Environment, what name does $backupfile have exactly?

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Hi UNiXMIT,

I managed to figure out what’s goin on with my script and now its fully working.
Your post help me a lot!!
Thanks again.

My script:

:global name=backupfile value=([/system identity get name] . [:pick [/system clock get date] 7 11] . [:pick [/system clock get date] 0 3] . [:pick [/system clock get date] 4 6] . [/system clock get time] .".backup");

/system backup save name=$backupfile

:put $backupfile

:global backupfile; :global backupname; /tool fetch url="sftp://10.10.10.10/home/SFTP/user1/Files/$backupfile" user=user1 password=passwd upload=yes keep-result=no src-path="$backupfile"
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Fantastic. Glad to hear it.