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: | Trapper |
|---|---|
| Location: | South Hadley, Ma. |
| Users: | 9 |
| Nodes: | 15 (0 / 15) |
| Uptime: | 493681:02:02 |
| Calls: | 126 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 264 |
| D/L today: |
1 files (8K bytes) |
| Messages: | 5,723 |
| Posted today: | 1 |