The means to backup mikrotik configuration

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How to Backup and Restore MikroTik configuration file manually was discussed in my previous article. I also discussed how to backup MikroTik configuration file automatically via Mail in another article and in this article I will show how to recover forgotten user password using MikroTik configuration file backup. That means, if any physical

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File menu shows all userspace files on the router. It is possible to see and edit file content or delete file. file creation is not possible from this menu. If RouterOS ".npk" package is uploaded, the file menu will also show package specific information, for example architecture, build date and time, etc.[admin@MikroTik] > file print detail 0 name="routeros-mipsbe-6.45.7.npk" type="package" size=11.5MiB creation-time=oct/29/2019 11:36:15 package-name="routeros-mipsbe" package-version="6.45.7" package-build-time=oct/24/2019 08:44:35 package-architecture="mips" 1 name="flash" type="directory" creation-time=jan/01/1970 02:00:03 2 name="flash/skins" type="directory" creation-time=jan/01/1970 02:00:04 3 name="flash/rw" type="directory" creation-time=sep/06/2019 14:01:16 4 name="flash/rw/pckg" type="directory" creation-time=sep/06/2019 14:01:16 If the device has a directory named "flash" in its file list, then files which you want to be kept after the system reboot/power cycle must be stored within it. As anything outside of it is kept within a RAM disk and will be lost upon reboot. This does not include .npk upgrade files as they will be applied by the upgrade process before the system discards the RAM drive content.BackupsRouterOS backup feature allows you to save the current device's configuration, which then can be re-applied on the same or a different identical model. This is very useful since it allows you to effortlessly restore device's configurations or to re-apply the same configuration on a backup device. The system's backup file also contains the device's MAC addresses, which are also restored when the backup file is loaded. If The Dude and user-manager are installed on the router, then the system backup will not contain configuration from these services. Therefore additional care should be taken to save a configuration from these services, for example, configuration export.System's backups contain sensitive information about your device and its configuration, always consider encrypting the backup file and keeping the backup file in a safe place. To save a backup configure the following:[admin@MikroTik] > system backup save name=/flash/backup1 password=StrongPass encryption=aes-sha256Saving system configurationConfiguration backup savedNote that we use "/flash/ "before the actual backup name on the devices with flash memory. As stated above, backups saved outside the flash folder will be deleted after a reboot or power cycle:[admin@MikroTik] > system backup save name=backup2 password=StrongPass encryption=aes-sha256 Saving system configurationConfiguration backup saved[admin@MikroTik] Is in safe mode, are automatically undone if the safe mode session terminates abnormally. You can see all such changes that will be automatically undone and tagged with an F flag in the system history:[admin@MikroTik] /ip/route> [Safe Mode taken] [admin@MikroTik] /ip/route add [admin@MikroTik] /ip/route /system/history/print Flags: U, F - FLOATING-UNDO Columns: ACTION, BY, POLICY ACTION BY POLICY F route 0.0.0.0/0 added admin write Now, if the telnet connection (or WinBox terminal) is cut, then after a while (TCP timeout is 9 minutes) all changes that were made while in safe mode will be undone. Exiting session by [Ctrl]+[D] also undoes all safe mode changes, while /quit does not.If another user tries to enter safe mode, he's given the following message:[admin@MikroTik] >Hijacking Safe Mode from someone - unroll/release/don't take it [u/r/d]:[u] - undoes all safe mode changes, and puts the current session in safe mode.[r] - keeps all current safe mode changes, and puts the current session in a safe mode. The previous owner of safe mode is notified about this:[admin@MikroTik] ip firewall rule input[Safe mode released by another user][d] - leaves everything as-is.If too many changes are made while in safe mode, and there's no room in history to hold them all (currently history keeps up to 100 most recent actions), then the session is automatically put out of the safe mode, and no changes are automatically undone. Thus, it is best to change the configuration in small steps, while in safe mode. Pressing [Ctrl]+[X] twice is an easy way to empty the safe mode action list.System Backup and RestoreSystem backup is the way to completely clone router configuration in binary format.More information about Backup and Restore is found here.Configuration Export and ImportRouterOS allows exporting and importing parts of the configuration in plain text format. This method can be used to copy bits of configuration between different devices, for example, clone the whole firewall from one router to another.An export command can be executed from each menu (resulting in configuration export only from this specific menu and all its sub-menus) or from the root menu for complete config export and is available for CLI only.The Export command does not export system user passwords, installed certificates, SSH keys, Dude, or a User-manager database.Installed certificates, Dude, and User-manager databases must be manually exported and imported into a new device.System user passwords and user SSH keys can not be exported.During config import, we suggest using the same RouterOS version used during config export to prevent cases when some of the commands do not exist in one or another RouterOS version. Configuration ExportThe following command parameters are accepted:PropertyDescriptioncompactOutput only modified configuration, the default behaviorfileExport configuration to a specified file. When the file is not

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All wlan interfaces to the bridge ... and if you're happy with IP subnet, you're already done).The above mentioned basic configuration could be a good start even for more complex configurations ... after all, one could configure the rest of ports (including setting up another bridge) leaving out the last ether port ... then reconnect to another ether port and finish own setup by adding the last ether port and removing the rest of settings (IP setup, original bridge).As there's no such simple default config to choose in quickset, things get complicated out of beginner users' proportions. vecernik87 Forum Veteran Posts: 891 Joined: Fri Nov 10, 2017 8:19 am Re: Using MikroTik hAP as simple switch plus wireless AP Tue Feb 19, 2019 10:09 am True Unfortunately the "Home AP" or "Home AP dual" is not just pure AP but router+AP.This seems to be solved in the "WISP AP" which offers choice between "router" and "bridge" mode (and really adds everything into one bridge) Unfortunately it offers only 5G wifi config within quickset, so user has to configure 2G wifi separately.So if Mikrotik implements the mode (bridge/router) selector into Home AP / Home AP dual, it would actually cover all possible cases.(during all these tests I also noticed that /system reset-configuration creates backup file in ramdisk instead of flash storage, so it actually does not survive reboot and therefore switch is completely irrelevant on devices with ramdisk because backup never stays... Now I wonder if it is feature or bug and whether it should be reported through support@...) anav Forum Guru Posts: 23096 Joined: Sun Feb 18, 2018 11:28 pm Location: Nova Scotia, Canada Contact: Re: Using MikroTik hAP as simple switch plus wireless AP Tue Feb 19, 2019 3:25 pm I use the wisp mode for my capACs because it works and is simple.The default mode passes everything through the ACL part of the wisp configuration by default (which I use my other RB for anyway).no nat to worry about. ukracer just joined Posts: 16 Joined: Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:21 pm Re: Using MikroTik hAP as simple switch. How to Backup and Restore MikroTik configuration file manually was discussed in my previous article. I also discussed how to backup MikroTik configuration file automatically via Mail in another article and in this article I will show how to recover forgotten user password using MikroTik configuration file backup. That means, if any physical How to Backup MikroTik Configuration File It is easy to backup MikroTik configuration using Winbox GUI but you can use WebFig web interface that follows same procedure as Winbox. The following steps will show how to backup MikroTik configuration file using Winbox GUI. That means, if any physical router fails to operate due to any hardware

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Setup Fri Aug 20, 2021 7:01 am I'm very new and only scratching the surface but have tried this with multiple hAP series and also with the wAP. Too simpleI have hAP AC (DHCP Server - setup unimportant)adding wAP AC (simple extender or bridge) - method works if you add another hAP AC, etc. used as extender also.Sorry for repeating steps previously mentioned earlier in responses but "if it works"Power up new (extender) wAP (in my case) and no need to touch DHCP router yet ... connect via Winbox, FIRST - reset configuration (extender) , with No Backup and with No Default Configuration selected (a must to clear unwanted default settings)NEXT - create a bridge and add interfaces (select ALL for simplicity)THEN - open DHCP Client under IP settings and ADD your new bridge. *be sure "ADD default route" is set to "yes"LAST for this part - Reboot and connect a port to your (DHCP server) main router.Connect Winbox to Main Router .... IP - DHCP Server - Leases and find your AP (hostname Mikrotik if you don't know IP)Double-click lease entry for new Mikrotik .... Select "COPY" on the right side of Property Window ... choose your preferred IP Address (for me Gateway is 10.1.10.1 so I enter 10.1.10.2) and I CHECK the box for "use Source MAC address". click OK .... old entry should disappear on it's own. That is it on this device.Reboot of new extender and it will grab your new assigned IP (if main router is setup correctly, nothing more needed) below, is the entire configuration for the new AP (could probably remove Hotspot package to clean it up more, change system and supplicant identity, etc./interface bridgeadd name=AP_bridge/interface wirelessset [ find default-name=wlan1 ] ssid=MikroTikset [ find default-name=wlan2 ] ssid=MikroTik/interface wireless security-profilesset [ find default=yes ] supplicant-identity=MikroTik/ip hotspot profileset [ find default=yes ] html-directory=flash/hotspot/interface bridge portadd bridge=AP_bridge interface=all/ip dhcp-clientadd dhcp-options=hostname,clientid disabled=no interface=AP_bridge/system clockset time-zone-name=America/New_York[admin@MikroTik] > This is my first post, I think and unsure what this post will look like. Always wanting knowledge ... would love feedback. qatar2022 Member Candidate Posts: 180 Joined: Mon Aug 24, Erkel Frequent Visitor Posts: 58 Joined: Sun May 27, 2007 12:04 pm extract contents of backup file #1 Wed Jun 23, 2010 7:50 am Hi,I have a backup file that was made on a RB532, but when I try to restore it to a RB450AH or RB433AH it causes them to freeze up during the subsequent reboot, so I cannot access the configuration information.Is there a simple way of extracting the backup file, so that I can get a dump of the configuration. CheersStephen fewi Forum Guru Posts: 7717 Joined: Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:19 am Re: extract contents of backup file #2 Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:01 am ... escriptionThe configuration backup can be used for backing up MikroTik RouterOS configuration to a binary file, which can be stored on the router or downloaded from it using FTP for future use. The configuration restore can be used for restoring the router's configuration, exactly as it was at the backup creation moment, from a backup file. The restoration procedure assumes the cofiguration is restored on the same router, where the backup file was originally created, so it will create partially broken configuration if the hardware has been changed.See the same link for how to do text link exports, which you can strip of specific information (MAC addresses etc.) and apply to other devices. erkel Frequent Visitor Topic Author Posts: 58 Joined: Sun May 27, 2007 12:04 pm Re: extract contents of backup file #3 Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:33 am Cheers,I do not have a 532 that I can load it on and then export, so do not see any easy way. I can read some of the contents by opening it up in a text editor, but not much. SurferTim Forum Guru Posts: 4636 Joined: Mon Jan 07, 2008

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Print count-only):local x 10#Max time to wait:local t 30while ($i The above script will wait until there are 10 interfaces visible, or 30 seconds. If there are no 10 interfaces at this time, it will put a message in the log. Modify the variables according to your needs.Configuration ResetRouterOS allows resetting configuration with /system reset-configuration commandThis command clears all configuration of the router and sets it to the factory defaults including the login name and password ('admin' with an empty password or, for some models, check user and wireless passwords on the sticker). For more details on the default configuration see the list.After executing the configuration reset command, the router will reboot and load the default configuration. Starting from version 7.13, following the reset, a license prompt will be displayed with the option to view the end-user license agreement.The backup file of the existing configuration is stored before reset. That way you can easily restore any previous configuration if the reset is done by mistake.If the router was installed using Netinstall and had a script specified as the initial configuration, the reset command executes this script after purging the configuration. To stop it from doing so, you will have to reinstall the router.It is possible to override the default reset behavior with the parameters below:PropertyDescriptionkeep-usersDo not remove existing users from the configurationno-defaultsDo not load the default configuration, just clear the configurationskip-backupSkip automatic backup file generation before resetrun-after-resetRun specified .rsc file after reset. That way you can load your custom configuration.If a specific .rsc file execution takes more than 2 minutes, a script will fail, and LOG will contain "runtime limit exceeded" or in rare cases "std failure: timeout" error.For example hard reset configuration without loading default config and skipping backup file:[admin@MikroTik] > /system reset-configuration no-defaults=yes skip-backup=yesDangerous! Reset anyway? [y/N]: yAnd the same using Winbox:

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Reset button. This button has the following functions:Hold this button during boot time until LED light starts flashing, release the button to reset RouterOS configuration (total 5 seconds).Keep holding for 5 more seconds, LED turns solid, release now to turn on CAPs mode (total 10 seconds).* Keep holding the button for 5 more seconds until LED turns off, then release it to make the RouterBOARD look for Netinstall servers (total 15 seconds). Regardless of the above option used, the system will load the backup RouterBOOT loader if the button is pressed before power is applied to the device. Useful for RouterBOOT debugging and recovery.AccessoriesPackage includes the following accessories that come with the device:K-25 set.SpecificationsFor more information about this product, specification and pictures please visit our web page: system supportThe device supports RouterOS software version 6. The specific factory-installed version number is indicated in the RouterOS menu /system resource. Other operating systems have not been tested.MikroTik mobile appUse the MikroTik smartphone app to configure your router in the field, or to apply the most basic initial settings for your MikroTik home access point.Scan QR code and choose your preferred OS.Install and open application.By default, the IP address and user name will be already entered.Click Connect to establish a connection to your device through a wireless network.Choose Quick setup and application will guide you through all basic configuration settings in a couple of easy steps.An advanced menu is available to fully configure all necessary settings.To avoid pollution of the environment, please separate. How to Backup and Restore MikroTik configuration file manually was discussed in my previous article. I also discussed how to backup MikroTik configuration file automatically via Mail in another article and in this article I will show how to recover forgotten user password using MikroTik configuration file backup. That means, if any physical How to Backup MikroTik Configuration File It is easy to backup MikroTik configuration using Winbox GUI but you can use WebFig web interface that follows same procedure as Winbox. The following steps will show how to backup MikroTik configuration file using Winbox GUI. That means, if any physical router fails to operate due to any hardware

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PC.If the PC is setup with static IP 192.168.88.2 and point to gateway 192.168.88.1 and the router reset to defaults it should just workDid you startup winbox?? ukracer just joined Posts: 16 Joined: Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:21 pm Re: Using MikroTik hAP as simple switch plus wireless AP Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:14 am Yup exactly, so why cannot you connect to the router from the PC.If the PC is setup with static IP 192.168.88.2 and point to gateway 192.168.88.1 and the router reset to defaults it should just workDid you startup winbox??Yes tried winbox.I can see the PC is set ok with a static IP of 192.168.88.2But even checking with Angry IP scanner I cant see 192.168.88.1Maybe I am just not understanding what this means " and point to gateway 192.168.88.1" I tried it in the default gateway section when setting the static IP and without but still cant see the router box..regards Andy T ukracer just joined Posts: 16 Joined: Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:21 pm Re: Using MikroTik hAP as simple switch plus wireless AP Wed Feb 27, 2019 12:19 am I guess the big problem with such "simple" tasks is that prior to starting to configure, RB needs to be reset with no configuration. And then usual (by SOHO standards) configuration method (use web browser) doesn't work, one needs to use Winbox.I am trying that but cant connect.As there's no such simple default config to choose in quickset, things get complicated out of beginner users' proportions.Tell me about it...I thought it was complicated enough but I am in a right mess now... anav Forum Guru Posts: 23096 Joined: Sun Feb 18, 2018 11:28 pm Location: Nova Scotia, Canada Contact: Re: Using MikroTik hAP as simple switch plus wireless AP Wed Feb 27, 2019 1:57 am Okay after you have used the pin to reset the router, and have setup your pc.Just plug eth2 directly to your PC. You should be able to winbox directly into the router unless its broken??? ukracer just joined Posts: 16 Joined: Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:21 pm Re: Using MikroTik