I just wanted to put a shout out to OpenWRT, a third-party router firmware that runs on a lot of routers. Most OEM routers are running embedded Linux already, OpenWRT replaces it with a more featureful OS.
The OS backup isn't a binary, proprietary blob - it's a tar file of the configuration files by directory. I screwed up my configuration and the DNS server broke, but I was able to copy over the configs via SSH and was up and running quickly.
| Sysop: | BrokenMind |
|---|---|
| Location: | Central Pa |
| Users: | 84 |
| Nodes: | 4 (0 / 4) |
| Uptime: | 493450:39:24 |
| Calls: | 80 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 6,972 |
| D/L today: |
5 files (72K bytes) |
| Messages: | 28,607 |