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: | Morningstarr |
|---|---|
| Location: | Mt. Pleasant Nc |
| Users: | 35 |
| Nodes: | 250 (0 / 250) |
| Uptime: | 39:01:16 |
| Calls: | 161 |
| Calls today: | 161 |
| Files: | 613 |
| U/L today: |
614 files (5,824M bytes) |
| D/L today: |
13,070 files (168G bytes) |
| Messages: | 10,523 |
| Posted today: | 621 |