/system/upgrade menu

RouterOS General
1

I’m actually kind of confused what the

/system/upgrade

menu is actually for. In winbox the representative menu is called System/Auto-Upgrade.

I was always performing updates via the

/system/package

But what is this menu for?

I was already searching in the documentation and in the old wiki as well and did not find anything. There also seem to be some options to configure a mirror? (maybe other router to download update packages from?)

Can someone tell me sth. about that? And does anyone know why these features aren’t documented? Or have I been just to dumb to find them?

2

https://mivilisnet.wordpress.com/2020/03/13/how-to-update-mikrotik-from-the-alternate-source/

3

Thank you for that nice description. In this menu there’s also a mirror option, what does this mean?

And why is this nowhere documented by mikrotik?

4

I assume mirror is the ROS instance that hosts the update packages.

5

yes, local mirror, this is for people who have networks of mikrotik routers, but have no internet connection

6

I’ve tried this nicely explained example but i still cannot get it working. But on the host device I see that the client device logs in and tries to to sth.

7

Hi Normis,

is the Auto Upgrade / Mirror feature still supported? I’ve read a lot of messages in the forum, complaining about it’s disfunctinion and writing that the feauture is dead.
Also my personal attempts failed, see for example http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/issue-with-auto-upgrade-packages-from-another-mikrotik-device/137938/1

Regards!

8

Not that anyone asked but…

Alternative method is to manually download the npk-files from https://mikrotik.com/download

And then upload it to your Mikrotik device (example 192.0.2.1) using scp (you must have /ip/service/ssh enabled):

scp ./routeros-7.15.3-mipsbe.npk username@192.0.2.1:confused:

And then reboot the device with:

/system/reboot

After reboot login and dont forget to also update the bootloader aka routerboot upgrade using (unless you have autoupgrade enabled because then you just reboot it a second time):

/system/routerboard/upgrade

Edit: Updated path to copy the npk into which should be the root (the ramdisk). /flash will work but the file will then remain on the device and must be manually deleted.

9

No need to push files into flash subfolder. IIRC it’s actually required to put NPK files to storage root (even if it’s a RAM disk) for updater to act on them.

10

Ahh right, copied from another guide I have setup regarding configs which must be placed in /flash otherwise they will be gone after reboot (since the root aka / is just a ramdisk).

Ill update the post to reflect correct syntax.

11

For me that feature was never working, and for some reason i was getting high CPU.

I found very useful with script where i’m pushing the file via ftp