Upgrade Problems

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I’m trying to upgrade a RouterBOARD from 3.13 to 3.23, and the device shows that 60.5 of 60.6 MB of storage are full. FTPing into the device shows that there’s about 13 megs of space used with a few old backups. The upgrade path told me to upload the combined packages, and then reboot the device to upgrade, but the combined package is too large.

Is there any way to determine where the storage is being used? Alternately, if I upload the packages one at a time, will that work to upgrade?

I inherited a few Mikrotik devices at a client, and so this is all new to me. Thank you for your help.

2

To free up some space, uninstall any unused packages (system–>packages) and delete any old backups you don’t need.
Then reboot.

3

There are no currently unused packages, unfortunately…

All the other similar Mikrotik devices I have all have ~30MB free. I have no idea what’s causing this one to be so full. I also have no backups on there that I can see via the FTP client.

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  1. Create a backup of the router configurations
/system backup save name=myconfig
  1. Copy the backup file to your computer
  2. Connect the Router Board to your computer with console cable
  3. Use Hyper Terminal to connect to the Router Board
  4. Format the Router Board NAND
  5. Connect the Router Board to you PC via Ethernet ports
  6. Use Netinstall to reinstall the Router OS and load the backup file
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Other factors to consider.
Web caching
DNS caching
Dude installed
Logging to disk