MikroTik – Configuration backup and forward on Gmail Account.

February 15, 2016

In this new article, we’ll be able to send an e-mail Gmail, an automatic daily backup of our systems MikroTik.
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n. 1 MikroTik RB951-2n;

The RouterBoard is updated with the firmware version 3.10 and with RouterOS 6.20.

1° Step – Add in System/Script a new script that will call backup_mail Fig. 1.

2° Step – Inside the Script window we copy the following script, remembering to replace the parameters in bold with the credentials of our e-mail Gmail Fig.2.

:log warning “Start Backup MikroTik Router . . . “
:global backupfile configbackup
:global mikrotikexport mtexport_backup
:global sub1 ([/system identity get name])
:global sub2 ([/system clock get time])
:global sub3 ([/system clock get date])
:global adminmail1 your_email@gmail.com
:global gmailid your_email@gmail.com
:global gmailpwd your_password
:global gmailip
:set gmailip [:resolve “smtp.gmail.com”];
:log warning “Creating a new backup file. . . “
/system backup save name=$backupfile
/export file=$mikrotikexport
:log warning “Pause backup process for 10 seconds so that it can complete the backup, if the system is busy …”
:delay 10s
:log info “Sending Files created via Email. . .”
/tool e-mail send to=$adminmail1 password=$gmailpwd subject=”$sub3 $sub2 $sub1 file backup” from=$gmailid file=$backupfile server=$gmailip start-tls=yes
/tool e-mail send to=$adminmail1 password=$gmailpwd subject=”$sub3 $sub2 $sub1 file rsc” from=$gmailid file=$mikrotikexport server=$gmailip start-tls=yes
:delay 10s
# Automatically delete old backups.
/file remove $backupfile
/file remove $mikrotikexport
:log warning “Backup completed successfully.”

Inside the Script window <backup_mail> we copy the following script, remembering to replace the parameters in bold with the credentials of our e-mail Gmail Fig.2.

3° Step – Open the window Email Setting in Tools/Email, and insert the configuration parameters for the outgoing e-mail. The IP address 173.194.65.108 corresponds to the SMTP server smtp.gmail.com. through the Send Email button inserts verify whether the parameters are correct Fig. 3.

Open the window Email Setting in Tools/Email, and insert the configuration parameters for the outgoing e-mail. The IP address 173.194.65.108 corresponds to the SMTP server smtp.gmail.com. through the Send Email button inserts verify whether the parameters are correct Fig. 3.

4° Step – We open the window Scheduler in System/Scheduler, and add a new event as represented in Fig. 4.

5° Step – Finally we insert a new rule in Logging, then we’re going to select System/Logging, click the add (+), and define a rule that will allow us to have a featured within our Log Fig. 5.