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Backups, exports, upgrades and recovery

Protect a router's configuration the way a support team does: readable exports and encrypted binary backups, copied off the router, restored when something is deleted, and taken automatically every night. Then look at packages, update channels, resets and Netinstall.

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In your workspace: Shared, then MikroTik MTCNA RouterOS v7 guided labs, then 05 - Backups exports upgrades and recovery

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Level
Beginner
Time
About 45 minutes
Nodes need
2 vCPU, 512 MB
Smallest plan
Lite

The scenario

Last month a customer's router lost its configuration after a failed upgrade, and nobody had a copy. Fernvale's new rule: every managed router keeps an encrypted backup and a readable export, both copied to the NOC router, plus a nightly export. You are setting this up on R1, a customer router whose DNS entries took an afternoon to collect, and testing that a restore really works.

DeviceInterfaceAddressRole
R1ether110.0.0.1/30Customer router
NOCether110.0.0.2/30Fernvale NOC router, receives the files

What you’ll practise

  • Explain the difference between a binary backup and an export, and when to use each
  • Export the whole configuration or one menu, and read the result
  • Save an encrypted backup
  • Copy files to another router with SFTP using /tool fetch
  • Restore part of a configuration with /import
  • Schedule a nightly export
  • Read packages, licence and update channel, and describe reset and Netinstall options

The tasks

  1. Read the configuration as an export
  2. Save an export file and an encrypted backup
  3. Copy the files off the router
  4. Restore something that was deleted
  5. Take an export every night
  6. Packages, licence and update channel
  7. Know your way back: reset and Netinstall (reading)

The Lab Tasks pane has the scenario, these tasks, the checks to run, hints and the full solution.

Topology and devices

The network as it opens in EVE-NG, drawn from the lab’s own canvas, and the image each node runs.

Topology of Backups exports upgrades and recovery2 nodes, 1 link. Every link is listed as text below the diagram.R1NOCether1ether1
2 nodes, with the interface names each link uses.
Every link, as text
  • R1 ether1 to NOC ether1
Nodes in Backups, exports, upgrades and recovery, with the image each runs and the vCPU and RAM it’s set to
NodeDeviceImage in Add NodeSet to
R1MikroTik RouterOSmikrotik-7.14.21 vCPU, 256 MB
NOCMikroTik RouterOSmikrotik-7.14.21 vCPU, 256 MB

How to open this lab

  1. Sign in to your workspace at lab.cloudlabbox.com.

  2. In File Manager, open Shared, then the folder MikroTik MTCNA RouterOS v7 guided labs.

  3. Open 05 - Backups exports upgrades and recovery and start its nodes, then open Lab Tasks for the scenario and the steps.

The lab is read-only. You can start the nodes and configure the devices, but changes to the topology can’t be saved. To change it, rebuild it in your own folder.

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