BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: reset router to factory s
De:       poindexter FORTRAN
Data:     Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:49:49 -0700
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-=> Mindsurfer wrote to All <=-

 Mi> Storytime:

 Mi> After I experienced problems with the Wi-Fi on my Fritzbox VDSL router
 Mi> and was thankfully sent a replacement router, I set about transferring
 Mi> the data. As I discovered, backups cannot be restored if the versions
 Mi> of the router operating system do not match exactly. In such cases,
 Mi> where not everything can be restored, you should normally be able to
 Mi> select which settings you wish to restore, but this option was not
 Mi> available to me.

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.



 
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