Allied Telesis AT-WR4500 manual General Information, System Backup

18	AT-WR4500 Series - IEEE 802.11abgh Outdoor Wireless Routers
	RouterOS v3 Configuration and User Guide

3 Configuration and Software Management

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.

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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>