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: | Sarah |
|---|---|
| Location: | Portland, Oregon |
| Users: | 277 |
| Nodes: | 16 (0 / 16) |
| Uptime: | 53:59:17 |
| Calls: | 1,900 |
| Calls today: | 1,900 |
| Files: | 85,214 |
| U/L today: |
554 files (10,683M bytes) |
| D/L today: |
161,174 files (55,554M bytes) |
| Messages: | 77,183 |
| Posted today: | 73 |