It's totally possible that a binary backup is more "complete" and could cary along bad "cruft" that a text backup wouldn't. I suspect you had some corruption in your config which was eliminated by starting from scratch and pasting in the text backup.
On May 13, 2012, at 8:04 AM, Ralf Stoye wrote: > Answering my own Question, maybe it's useful for someone else: > > i was able to reduce the writes without changing anything, > just setting up everything from scratch solved the problem. > I think routeros has some bugs causing strange effects if you reconfigure it > without complete resetting the configuration. > (e.g. i could't delete proxy store, etc) > > Since i didn't want to interrupt the production machines, > I did it all on routers in our office, and later rolled out the corrected > settings in form of a backup. > > The procedure is like this: > - make a backup of the affected router > - restore it on a local one in our office (which was updated to the newest > version of RouterOS, e.g. 5.15 instead of 4.x), > - create a compact export, save it for later use > - reset configuration (no backup, no default...) > - set main (intra) interface address and passwords thru winbox > - ssh to the box and reconfig by carefully pasting parts of the exported > configuration. > > there were some things i left out like a now obsolete address or route, > but no really significant changes. > > Sector writes dropped to zero. > > Greetings > Ralf Stoye > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
