Automatically backup your OpenWRT router configuration to a local tarball under ~/Backups

backup-mainrouter.lan

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# script based on instructions from:
# https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/troubleshooting/backup_restore

router_hostname=mainrouter.lan

# Generate/update backup
ssh "$router_hostname" 'umask go=; sysupgrade -b /tmp/backup-${HOSTNAME}-$(date +%F).tar.gz'


# Download backup
mkdir -p ~/Backups/"$router_hostname"
scp root@"$router_hostname":/tmp/backup-*.tar.gz ~/Backups/"$router_hostname"

@jstrot

Yes, that's definitely much better. Good catch!