I have seen those errors for firewall rules, alternate port being used or for one reason or another I was trying active and had to change to passive mode.
Just fyi on mine I use scp, pre shared key, script with export, etc then cron kicks it off every weekend. Fixing to change that to export compact shortly. Terri Kelley Network Engineer Farm to Market Broadband On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Simon Westlake wrote: > I was previously backing up all our Mikrotik routers in RANCID but it was > difficult for some techs to work with - the files wouldn't always paste back > in correctly and randomly had capitalization errors, etc, that would cause > issues. So I decided to build an FTP system to back up the binary > configuration files instead. > > I have something in the scheduler that backs up the current config to > 'today.backup'. I then have a script on a remote server that FTPs in, pulls > the file and exits. It works fine.. other than the fact that ~50% of the > Mikrotiks do not work. What specifically does not work is any kind of data > transfer - I *can* connect and authenticate. > > 220 BRLLWIKSSW-RTR1 FTP server (MikroTik 4.12) ready > Name (x.x.x.x:simon): admin > 331 Password required for admin > Password: > 230 User admin logged in > Remote system type is UNIX. > ftp> ls > 200 PORT command successful > 425 Can't build data connection > ftp> ls > 200 PORT command successful > 425 Can't build data connection > ftp> Terminated > > I am not firewalling the port at all, tried disabling every firewall rule > just in case to no avail. Neither box is behind a NAT of any kind (the backup > system or the Mikrotik.) There seems to be no reason why the ones that work > DO work.. and the ones that don't work DON'T.. they both have identical > configs from a firewall/FTP perspective. Google didn't lead me anywhere > helpful. Any ideas? > > -- > Simon Westlake > Powercode.com > (920) 351-1010 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20120423/cf0c508b/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
