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: | LaF0rge |
|---|---|
| Location: | Berlin, Germany |
| Users: | 152 |
| Nodes: | 16 (0 / 16) |
| Uptime: | 255:04:07 |
| Calls: | 1,017 |
| Calls today: | 1,017 |
| Files: | 12 |
| U/L today: |
13 files (32,779K bytes) |
| D/L today: |
1,183 files (1,442M bytes) |
| Messages: | 24,535 |
| Posted today: | 31 |