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RouterOS v3 Configuration and User Guide
3 Configuration and Software Management
Document revisi on: 1.6 (Mon Sep 19 12:55: 52 GMT 2005)
Applies to: V2.9
3.1 General Information
Summary
This chapter introduces you with commands which are used to perform the following functions:
• system backup
• system restore from a backup
• configuration export
• configuration import
• system configuration reset
Description
The configuration backup can be used for backing up RouterOS configuration to a binary file, which can
be stored on the router or downloaded from it using FTP for future use. The configuration restore can
be used for restoring the router's configuration, exactly as it was at the backup creation moment, from a
backup file. The restoration procedure (/system backup load) assumes the cofiguration is restored on
the same router, where the backup file was originally created (/system backup save), so it will create
partially broken configuration if the hardware has been changed.
The configuration export can be used for dumping out complete or partial RouterOS configuration to the
console screen or to a text (script) file, which can be downloaded from the router using FTP protocol.
The configuration dumped is actually a batch of commands that add (without removing the existing
configuration) the selected configuration to a router. The configuration import facility executes a batch of
console commands from a script file.
System reset command is used to erase all configuration on the router. Before doing that, it might be
useful to backup the router's configuration.
In order to be sure that the backup will not fail, system backup load command must be used on the
same computer with the same hardware where system backup save was done.
3.1.1 System Backup
Submenu level: /system backup
Description
The save command is used to store the entire router configuration in a backup file. The file is shown in
the /file submenu. It can be downloaded via ftp to keep it as a backup for your configuration.
To restore the system configuration, for example, after a /system reset, it is possible to upload that file
via ftp and load that backup file using load command in /system backup submenu.
Command Description
load name=[filename] - Load configuration backup from a file
save name=[filename] - Save configuration backup to a file
Example
To save the router configuration to file test:
[admin@AT-WR4562] system backup> save name=test
Configuration backup saved
[admin@AT-WR4562] system backup>