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 configurations are overly complex, so rebuilding one from scratch, as it were, rarely takes more than a half-hour.
I'd like to make that process even more simple, though. I know RouterOS has two sorta-backup tools built-in. You can log into the terminal and run /export which will dump the whole configuration in a mostly-readable format. You can also run "/system export save" and get the same thing in a much bigger binary format. The problem I have is that these backups seem to be very hardware-dependent. Today, I was trying to reproduce the configuration of two radios I already had in the air; I thought it would be simple enough. Download the configuration from the existing ones, upload it to the new ones, change IP addresses and SSIDs, and call it a day. Turns out so much of the configuration is tied to things like "the MAC address of a given radio card or Ethernet interface," that after twenty minutes of trying to correct addresses to match the new hardware, it was easier just to start over. I can do this, but what if I get hit by a bus which subsequently careens into a tower, so someone else has to? Any suggestions on better ways to back up configurations from RouterOS devices, so I can subsequently restore them to identical (but different) hardware, would be appreciated. David Smith MVN.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
