There are many instructions on how to move automatic backups of the router via FTP to an external storage.

I would now like backups created by the router to be stored on an external storage device via SMB.

So far I have only found instructions on how to create an SMB share on the Mikrotik router, but I would like to copy/move local files from a Mikrotik router to an SMB share (Windows), is that possible?

Greetings
Andreas

Good Evening Andreas,

If i am not mistake, RouterOS doesn`t support SMB export out-of-the-box
Nevertheless, if you have a device with a arm, arm64, x86 or tile architecture,
you can install the ROSE-Package (https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/R ... SE-storage)
that support SMB-Share.

I just tested it with a RB4011, works great.

Add ROSE-storage package and reboot then create SMB disk:

You don't need rose package.

You don't need rose package.

Agrees; my bad.

Currently, there are no any commands to do that. But as far as I know, they are working on improving file management and hope this functionality will appear in the final 7.18 release or some beta.

Hi,

Try this:

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/R ... nexample.4


disk add smb-address=10.155.145.11 smb-share=share1 smb-user=user smb-password=password type=smb

Work only from cli.

Looks like no one is even reading what he asked about...

Yes, there is no copy/move file commands for CLI, only move over GUI can be done. For now only solution (without fetch command copy hack) is that backup script creates files directly on mounted disk path without need for copy/move.

To copy file locally over SSH using fetch command:
If you have password allowed SSH login password=<ROS_USER_PASSWORD> can be added to fetch command argument, but is not recommended, better to use key auth.

SSH local access setup
For key auth to work, private/public key pair needs to be exported into files:
and imported for SSH ROS user which will be used in fetch command:
Depending on firewall rules, in my case I needed to accept loopback interface in input chain to be able to connect to local SSH:
Also additional note: if there is IP restriction in /ip/service for ssh, then bridge address can be used instead 127.0.0.1 in sftp fetch url because localhost address cannot be added there.

In this case if file moving is needed, then file can be just deleted by /file/remove <copy_from_file_path> after is successfully uploaded by fetch command.

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