A simple tool to back up Mikrotik devices. Requires bash, ssh, and sftp.
Just copy any where in your path, and make executable. You may want to change the USER="root" line to USER="admin", or whatever your preferred user is on Mikrotik.
Create a user on your Mikrotik devices with a trusted SSH DSA key. This allows backup-mikrotik to avoid prompting you multiple times for passwords.
Mikrotik accepts only DSA SSH keys. Once a Mikrotik user accepts an SSH key, it no longer allows password authentication, even in Winbox. So do not do this with your "admin" user; create another user for this purpose instead. I use "root" for this.
# On your workstation:
scp ~/id_dsa.pub [email protected]:/
# On your Mikrotik device:
/user
user add name=root group=full password=xxxxxxxx
user ssh-keys import user=root public-key-file=id_dsa.pub