mkbackup

A tool to automate the backups of Mikrotik devices.

Version 1.0.0 by Gavin h8r1dx4@gmail.com & AnRkey anarkey@gmail.com 16 November 2016

Prerequisites

1. All routers need a user called backups with full permissions.
2. All routers must have a dns record and matching identity ie. router dns record = rtr-router-1.somedomain.com router identity = rtr-router-1
3. DSA public key stored in ~/.ssh

Setup

1. Edit the file router.list , enter the routers identity , one router per line.
2. Run the ssh-key-deploy.sh , this will login to every router in the router.list and copy the dsa key to it and install it. You will have to enter the password for the backups user you created.
3. Run mkbackups.sh this will login to every router in router.list make a backup and copy it into a directory labeled with the current day, month and year.

Logs

1. Every time mkbackup runs it will write a logfile in the directory where the backups are saved.

Automation

1. Backups can be automated by adding cronjob. To do this simply run add-cronjob.sh , by default it will add a cronjob that will run mkbackup.sh every day at 00:00.

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