[rotation]

As one should configure the options manually in some situations (big update step for example) instead of restore a backup how can the configuration be extracted, human readable?

Till now I made screenshots and copied longer text to notepad. Then I made the update with reset and had to copy paste it back or read from screenshot and write text in GUI.

Is there some automated way to obtain the current configuration in human readable form - easily?

[ho1Aetoo]

I create screenshots so that I do not forget anything.
and save the output of "nvram show"

For settings where I would have to write a lot, I use simply "copy and paste".

e.g.

nvram set static_leases="..."

whether this is easy to read - well

[kernel-panic69]

I believe yoyoma2 is working on integrating this into the easyddup utility he's developing:

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=322503

Other methods besides screenshot and copy/paste to text file (notepad++ is better) would be 'nvram show' / 'nvram show | sort' (the latter would muck up continuity of your host key and ssh login keys, FYI).

There used to be an old utility for this, or rather editing your nvram backup, not sure how usable it is these days as it was written for Windows 9x/NT/2k/Me/Vista:

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17605

https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17088

[Alozaros]

all here... we are on the same boat...
copy/paste, screen shots, 'nvram snow' mark it all + ctrl+c than paste on txt...it never fails...

In general, reset is not compulsory..only when there are memory location changes and some other general stuff or you have a gremlins in nvram, or router behaves abnormal...

If im not wrong,Broadcom devices and Atheros devices are different in terms of saving nvram variables over update..

when i started i used to run very simple set up and rebuild manually was fun, now its not, as it takes time
do in mind, do not use save file from a different builds...

[bushant]

Use browser print function save as PDF. Chromium and FF, probably others.
Prints the whole page and can be copied from, unlike (my) screenshots.

Check all advanced setting boxes and expand all text boxes first.
Some won't expand enough and you have to copy to file or screenshot. eg: SSH keys and DDNS hostname

Some popups won't print, such as .../FilterIPMAC.asp use other measures.

JMT

[mrjcd]

Good advice Bushant
just a lil note -- I don't have a bit of problem print-to-PDF (all pages) from any DD-WRT webif
https://mrjcd.com/junk/dd-wrt/022827/Filter_List.pdf ...I don't use MAC filter but just checkin/showing

that is using:


I removed all Chromium from this Debian since Google does what Google does and a while back they quit letting Chromium sync
with your Google account. I have years of passwords and other stuff I liked to have synced with whatever I am on so I bit the
bullet and installed Chrome on Debian using: ...as root

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

apt install ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

NOTE: this will be added to your sources list:
...good if you wanta keep Chrome updated everytime you do updates