Which pair of commands accomplish both exporting the current configuration and creating a binary backup?

• A. /export; /system backup save
• B. /export file=firewall-rules; /system backup save
• C. /export; /system backup load
• D. /export file=backup; /system backup save

Answer: (D)

In RouterOS, you want two different outputs: a text script that recreates the current configuration and a binary snapshot that can be restored quickly. The export command writes a script, but it only creates a file if you tell it where to write, so you specify a file name like file=backup. The binary backup is created with a separate command: /system backup save. Using load would restore from a backup rather than create one, and exporting to a specific subset (like firewall rules) wouldn’t capture the whole configuration. So this pair explicitly writes a named text export and also creates a binary backup, making it the correct combination: /export file=backup; /system backup save.