Rosdump

rosdump is a tool for backing up and optionally tracking configuration of RouterOS devices.

Use rosdump to:

• Backup Mikrotik network device configurations to your local file system
• Backup Mikrotik network device configurations to a git repository
• Run as a daemon that backs up devices on a predefined schedule

Quick Start

The following example uses the docker image to backup a RouterOS device. Create a config named rosdump.yml on your computer using the example below.

Specify the IP address, admin user and password of your own device.

Config example that writes backup to local filesystem

version: 1

devices:
  list:
    - host: 192.168.88.1
  common: # Overrides per-device settings
    driver: ssh-command
    timeout: 30s # See https://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration
    command: export
    username: admin
    password: password

storage:
  driver: file
  timeout: 30s
  path: '/opt/backups/{{.host}}/{{.time.UTC.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00"}}'

timeout: 30s # Optional timeout for a whole work cycle
interval: 4h # Duration between backups when running as a daemon

Assuming your config file is named rosdump.yaml, and you have docker installed on your computer, run the following command:

docker run --rm \
        -v $(realpath rosdump.yml):/etc/rosdump.yml \
        -v $(realpath backups):/opt/backups ecadlabs/rosdump

You will now have a backup of your configuration in a directory named backups/ in your present working directory.

Configuration Schema

Exporter drivers

Common options

Name	Type	Default	Required	Description
driver	string	ssh-command		Driver name
timeout	string/duration1

ssh-command

Name	Type	Default	Required	Description
name	string			Optional device name
host	string		✓	Host address
port	integer	22		SSH port
username	string		✓	User name
password	string			Password
identity_file	string			SSH private key file
command	string	export		Command to run on a remote device

Storage drivers

Common options

Name	Type	Default	Required	Description
driver	string		✓	Driver name
timeout	string/duration1

file

Name	Type	Default	Required	Description
path	string/template		✓	Destination path
compress	boolean	false		Use gzip compression

git

Name	Type	Default	Required	Description
repository_path	string			Local repository path. In-memory storage will be used if not specified.
url	string			URL to clone if the specified repository is not initialised. In-memory storage is always empty at startup so cloning will be performed anyway in this case.
pull	boolean			Pull changes from remote repository on startup (only if cloning is not required, see above).
username	string			User name (overrides one from URL)
password	string			Password (overrides one from URL)
identity_file	string			SSH private key file
remote_name	string			Name of the remote to be pulled. If empty, uses the default.
reference_name	string			Remote branch to clone. If empty, uses HEAD.
push	boolean			Push after commit
ref_specs	array			Specifies what destination ref to update with what source
destination_path	string/template		✓	Target path template relative to work tree
name	string		✓	Author name
email	string		✓	Author email
commit_message	string/template		✓	Commit message

Example config for git storage

version: 1

devices:
  list:
    - host: 192.168.88.1
  common:
    driver: ssh-command
    timeout: 30s
    command: export
    username: admin
    identity_file: /etc/rosdump/routeros_admin_private_key

storage:
  driver: git
  timeout: 30s
  url: [email protected]:yourorg/networkbackups.git
  identity_file: /etc/rosdump/git_deploy_key
  destination_path: '{{.host}}'
  push: true
  name: Network Backup
  email: [email protected]
  commit_message: 'Rosdump backup {{.time.UTC.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00"}}'

timeout: 30s
interval: 4h

Template data fields (transaction metadata)

Currently ssh-command driver exposes all its options (except password) as a transaction metadata. Additionally time field is set to transaction timestamp (see the description of Go time.Time type).

Footnotes

1. https://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration ↩ ↩²