While there are many fancy backup tools, often a simple daily rsync may already be sufficient. The advantage of an rsync backup is that it’s file system based, so no special tools are required to browse and access the files in the backup. However, rsync only copies the files, so there is no security measure like encryption. That’s fine locally or within a private network, but sometimes you only have a backup space you can’t trust, like a share on another machine or cloud storage.
My home server is set up to backup pretty much every device in my network automatically every day. So I figured why not also backup my AVM FritzBox router. In case it breaks or an update fails and it has to be reset, I can easily restore a backup with all settings, phone book entries, logs etc.
Fortunately, there is a very basic interface for automation, so it is possible to shell script the process of exporting the entire configuration.
