I wouldn't depend on that. I know I won't. You can't reliably do their own backup and restore...
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Apr 30, 2012 8:01 PM, "Justin Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think once "compact" export in 5.x gets nice and stable a lot of those > rancid issues can be lessened by updating the rancid script to use it. > > I use rancid but it's most difficult to teach people how to maintain the > router files. > > Justin > > On Apr 23, 2012, at 4:09 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20120430/d4283717/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
