[WISPA] Mikrotik: how to restore backups to identical hardware

2008-11-05 Thread David E. Smith
My network has a couple dozen RouterOS systems (mostly small RouterBoards) doing a number of jobs, from simple routing and DHCP server to this is a vital backhaul link. I kinda know my way around networking concepts, so should a board fail, replacing it is easy enough. And none of our

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik: how to restore backups to identical hardware

2008-11-05 Thread Scott Reed
Backup does require nearly identical equipment. I have some scripts that I use to export the parts that change, rather than the entire configuration. The problem with export is that it saves MAC addresses on interfaces. If you just delete the mac=xxx part of the interfaces, you can usually

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik: how to restore backups to identical hardware

2008-11-05 Thread David E. Smith
Scott Reed wrote: Backup does require nearly identical equipment. Not a problem; we really only use two or three boards here, and spares generally are readily available. The problem is, I want to make this simple enough for the receptionist to do. Go edit a bunch of MAC addresses from this

Re: [WISPA] Mikrotik: how to restore backups to identical hardware

2008-11-05 Thread D. Ryan Spott
If we could get a cisco-like restore-from-text-file system it would be perfect! ryan Scott Reed wrote: Backup does require nearly identical equipment. I have some scripts that I use to export the parts that change, rather than the entire configuration. The problem with export is that it