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Can you restore a config from an RBR50?
Just curious if it's possible to restore an RBK50 config to the new models. I put in a feature request a long time ago to allow config to carry over from model to model as basically you have to g...
I would put money on "not a chance." I read a post (somewhere) that the Orbi config file is simply a dump of NVRAM show only encrypted. No possibility of the newer model having exactly the same parameters.
What I have done is create an Excel file containing all of my customized IP assignments, Device names, Device types. When I do a factory reset, I open a telnet session, "copy and paste" this file into telnet, and click "Apply" on the LAN setup page.
Circle and Armor are good questions. Probably the folks who follow those two community forums have a better idea than most of us on this forum.
A while back I put in a feature request to NetGear that the config files be changed to XML output, which could be parsed and applied as appropriate when importing a config.
This would allow you to import the pertinent portions of the config from any old router into a new one, where - let's face it - outside of a few tweaks the configuration capabilities are probably pretty much identical.
I have a ton of devices, and this would make upgrading them from one model to another so much less time-consuming - which would also mean I'd be much more likely to upgrade to a new NetGear router.
Well, as mentioned. You can restore from a RBR50 to another RBR50. You just can't restore from a RBR50 to a RBR20. I presume NG keeps it this way as there are some features not seen between the Orbi models thus making some level in incompatibility. Overall, it just keeps everything for NG in development easier. Orbi is already a complex system. I wouldn't want to make it any more complex than it is.
VerneArase wrote:A while back I put in a feature request to NetGear that the config files be changed to XML output, which could be parsed and applied as appropriate when importing a config.
This would allow you to import the pertinent portions of the config from any old router into a new one, where - let's face it - outside of a few tweaks the configuration capabilities are probably pretty much identical.
I have a ton of devices, and this would make upgrading them from one model to another so much less time-consuming - which would also mean I'd be much more likely to upgrade to a new NetGear router.
