Storytime:
After I experienced problems with the Wi-Fi on my Fritzbox VDSL router and was thankfully sent a replacement router, I set about transferring the data.
As I discovered, backups cannot be restored if the versions of the router operating system do not match exactly. In such cases, where not everything can be restored, you should normally be able to select which settings you wish to restore, but this option was not available to me.
Another option is to connect the routers to each other using a LAN cable on port 1, and connect the computer to one of the other LAN ports on the original router. You could then launch a wizard in the original router interface to carry out the data transfer. After some back and forth and unsuccessful attempts to transfer the data, I realised that the Fritzbox sent as a replacement no longer had any network functionality on its LAN ports.
So the new Fritzbox was more or less bricked.
Things were starting to get a bit awkward.
Unfortunately, none of the Fritzbox routers have a factory reset button. You can only do this via the router software menu or via an analogue or DECT telephone. In the Fritzbox current state, DECT hadn even been set up yet, and I haven had any analogue telephones at home for ages. Even if I did have DECT telephones, they wouldn have helped me anyway
In the end, luckily, it occurred to me that I actually have an analogue USRobotics modem on my Funtopia BBS, which still reliably accepts connections via telephone calls. It basically an analogue telephone :)
So I connected the telephone socket on the USRobotics modem to the analogue telephone port on the new Fritzbox router, started minicom on the Funtopia BBS Ubuntu LXC and tried various atdt commands.
atdt#991*15901590*
That was the solution, and the Fritzbox was reset to its factory settings.
As I also had older backups of the original Fritzbox settings, I restored an older backup to the new Fritzbox, which was now responding again and was compatible with the FritzOS version of the new replacement router, and then manually added the missing settings for the rest of the evening.
And so, now that the new Router is running, I can write this message =)
Mindsurfer
PS: Why didn I first update the new Fritzbox to a version of FritzOS that would have been compatible with the Fritzbox Backup I'm currently using?
The new Fritzbox 7590AX could be updated to 8.20. That was the highest version available. However, the 7590 that was due to be replaced already had FritzOS 8.21
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