System Backup; The Export Command - MikroTik RouterOS v2.9 Reference Manual

The configuration export can be used for dumping out MikroTik RouterOS configuration to the
console screen or to a text (script) file, which can be downloaded from the router using FTP. The
configuration import can be used to import the router configuration script from a text 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.
Note! 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.

System Backup

Home menu 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@MikroTik] system backup> save name=test
Configuration backup saved
[admin@MikroTik] system backup>
To see the files stored on the router:
[admin@MikroTik] > file print
# NAME
0 test.backup
[admin@MikroTik] >
Example
To load the saved backup file test:
[admin@MikroTik] system backup> load name=test
Restore and reboot? [y/N]: y
...

The Export Command

Command name: /export
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