text config file?

[Justinh]

I have an RT-AC68P. Is there any way to get a text version of the configuration file? The one that is exported via the web interface appears to be binary.

 

[JDB]

If you switch to Merlin firmware you can run a backup/restore tool which is more human readable.


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[RMerlin]

I have an RT-AC68P. Is there any way to get a text version of the configuration file? The one that is exported via the web interface appears to be binary.

nvram show > /file/location/data.txt

 

[Justinh]

Thanks, Mr. Merlin. I presumed your suggestion was a cmd line input, so I connected to the router via telnet (first time ever tried cmd line access). I got the file, but how do I get the file to my computer?

The file contents is not very user-friendly

 

[RMerlin]

. I got the file, but how do I get the file to my computer?

Either store it on a USB disk (/mnt/sda1/file.txt), or don't redirect it, and copy/paste it from your console.

he file contents is not very user-friendly

Don't know what else you are expecting. NVRAM is just a series of variables with a value associated to each of them. That output is exactly that: the name of the variable, and the value associated to it.

 

[Justinh]

Thank you. I guess I was expecting an organized, more human-readable output like when I've used the save settings cmd from other routers in the past. But, this is not a 'save settings' cmd. I didn't think about it being just a bunch of raw data in memory (which I think that is what it is). Thank you for the help.

 

[RMerlin]

I didn't think about it being just a bunch of raw data in memory (which I think that is what it is).

It's not. Look at the output, they're a series of varname=value lines. You could reapply any of them just by using:

nvram set varname="value"
nvram commit

A lot of these values are low-level settings that aren't user-editable (like the various wifi calibration settings). If you look at those related to the webui settings (like dhcp_staticlist), they're fairly readable lists.

You can get a sorted list this way:

nvram show | sort