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: | John F Kennedy |
|---|---|
| Location: | Quebec, Canada |
| Users: | 46 |
| Nodes: | 15 (0 / 15) |
| Uptime: | 42:32:40 |
| Calls: | 1,032 |
| Calls today: | 1,032 |
| Files: | 1 |
| U/L today: |
1 files (1K bytes) |
| D/L today: |
19 files (1K bytes) |
| Messages: | 19,350 |
| Posted today: | 2 |