Backup scripts

[DrTeeth]

It is waaayyyyy beyond my capabilities, but I for one would pay for some backup scripts that would backup and restore user data/choices without interfering with the firmware defaults when doing a reset. It would save hours of time.

It is the complete palaver (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=palava) of reinstalling all my setting that is stopping me from upgrading and experimenting. I would also have to do a reset when changing between wireless SDK 5 and SDK 6 builds.

I suppose the more I do it the easier it gets, but I would rather not go there. Looks like an opportunity for somebody.

 

[saintdev]

Here's a simple script I use to restore my settings. It could be improved a lot. It takes a file that contains the output of nvram show, with only the settings you want to backup. I do not know what all the relevant settings are. I would also guess that most of the nvram settings can be changed from the web interface. So backing up all the "user defined settings" would be the same as a backup from the web interface and defeat the purpose. I'm not even sure I got all the necessary settings, I just scanned the output of nvram show for what I thought looked applicable to my setup.

restore-settings.sh

#!/bin/sh

while read line
do
        echo ${line}
        nvram set ${line} || exit 1
done < "$1"

nvram commit

settings.txt

dhcp_end=10.0.0.254
dhcp_start=10.0.0.2
dhcp_staticlist=<ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff>10.0.0.20>sabre<ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:fe>10.0.0.21>khopesh
dhcp_static_x=1
ipv6_service=dhcp6
lan_ipaddr=10.0.0.1
lan_ipaddr_rt=10.0.0.1
lan_netmask=255.255.255.0
lan_netmask_rt=255.255.255.0

Example usage

# ./restore-settings.sh settings.txt

This script worked for me, but use it at your own risk!