Is there really no way to see the Router Backup .cfg file in human readable form?

[arturox]

Win 10 Pro fully updated. Broadband Internet connection. Home LAN.

In my old DG834/v4 router the backup .cfg file was human readable.

Today I've just attached a DGN2200v4 to my system, manually re-done all the settings, but now I find the backup.cfg file is gobbledygook... Not human readable.

This is a very simple question:

How does the human, get a human readable backup file?

Thanks

Arturox

[arturox]

Harumph!

From the silence I assume there is no easy way... Or more importantly, no way at all.

For which an explete would be most useful...  🙂

Guess I'll just have to use Snagit to do a set of window grabs of the stuff I've configured.  😞

Sigh!

Arturox

[antinode]

> How does the human, get a human readable backup file?

   Use a router which produces one?

   I don't recall having seen an explanation of why some models do it
one way, while others do it the other.  I also don't know whether the
non-text version is raw data or compressed text.

> Guess I'll just have to use Snagit to do a set of window grabs of the
> stuff I've configured. 😞

   Have your web browser save the HTML?

   I prefer to keep plain-text notes when I do the configuration.
They're very compact and easy to annotate and edit, and they allow easy
copy+paste in a few cases where that's helpful.

   Also, I've seen cases (involving port forwarding) where not all the
data are displayed in the usual report from the management web site.

> Sigh!

   Life is hard.