Hi Everyone,
I’m unable to restore my device using a backup that was created from the same CPE. I don’t know why this happens. The backup file itself is human-readable, but after performing the restore, I can no longer communicate with the device. Additionally, I do not have physical access to it.
Regards.
If it is human readable, then it is not a backup (which is a binary file in a proprietary Mikrotik format).
Maybe what you have an export, and not a backup.
Typically a backup will have .backup extension, while an export will have a .rsc one, but of course files can have been renamed.
And to add: textual exports are not really suitable to restore because they add configuration on top of existing one. To apply them as-is, one would have to first remove all configuration, but then one would also loose management access (unless using WinBox via MAC connection) ... before having opportunity to apply the backup.