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: | MSGRetired |
|---|---|
| Location: | Oxford, MA |
| Users: | 12 |
| Nodes: | 4 (0 / 4) |
| Uptime: | 65:52:45 |
| Calls: | 49 |
| Calls today: | 49 |
| Files: | 68,673 |
| D/L today: |
4,900 files (830M bytes) |
| Messages: | 11,786 |
| Posted today: | 7 |