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Gmail + Google Drive + MikroTik scripting = Automated Backups Folder

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I was recently looking for a simpler alternative to something like RANCID to periodically backup all our MikroTik configs.

RANCID is great and all, but I didn’t really need the diff copies of each file, and I was plenty happy just knowing that I have a .backup and .rsc file for each router I manage.

Given I use Gmail it might have been ok just to have each router send them there and leave it at that, but I’m not really the sort of person to half-ass my afterhours projects.. I learnt from Greg that you have to just whole-ass them 🙂

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Cool console: Terminal health

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The following is a short but useful script which allows your system note to output recent info regarding router health and/or other details you might be interested in.

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Special thanks to Werner Venter for showing me the  ‘Cool Console‘ script which was modified and extended upon for this post.

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Study guide: Moving up to RouterOS v6

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Given v6.0 stable is now upon us I’ve taken some time to collate some of the posts I’ve been familiarising myself with over the last few weeks to understand the major changes that have been implemented in this release and how to best upgrade and make use of these.

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I’ve tagged some videos and forum posts below with topics breakdowns for ease of review

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RouterOS as a PXE (Net Boot) server

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As more and more people switch to netbooks; the ability to provision Operating Systems and boot iso’s over the network becomes highly useful. It has become quite common to see CD/DVD ROM drives removed altogether in mobile and even some desktop machines.

Installing and booting machines using RouterOS as the bootp/tftp server is quite a simple process if you are familiar with PXE booting, but for those of you who are not, allow me to provide a basic guide along with a preset package for you to try this out yourself.

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