Backup and restore work well, at least I have never had an issue. There are some things to be aware of, but they work as designed.

Export and import also work well. Again, you have to know what they do, but they work consistently for us.

I am looking forward to the compact option as it will make configuring replacement boards much easier.

On 4/30/2012 8:03 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
I wouldn't depend on that.  I know I won't.  You can't reliably do their
own backup and restore...

Josh Luthman
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On Apr 30, 2012 8:01 PM, "Justin Miller"<mikro...@dynstatic.net>  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?
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