Maintaining And Monitoring; How To Back Up And Restore Your Router Configuration - Linksys WRT 1900AC User Manual

Maintaining and Monitoring

HOW TO BACK UP AND RESTORE YOUR ROUTER
CONFIGURATION
As with any valuable data, you should back up your router configuration. Your
router might contain many customized settings. Those settings would be lost if
you reset your router to its factory defaults, and you would need to re-enter all of
them manually. If you back up your router configuration, restoring settings is easy.
Note:
You can only back up the router configuration locally (not remotely).
To back up your router configuration, do the following:
• Log in to Linksys Smart Wi-Fi. (See "How to connect to Linksys Smart Wi-Fi" on
page 7.)
• Under Router Settings, click Troubleshooting.
• Click the Diagnostics tab.
• Under Router configuration, click Backup. You are prompted to save the file.
• Specify a file location, then click Save.
Tip:
For save multiple backup files, include the backup date in the filename as you
save.
WRT 1900AC | Maintaining and Monitoring
To restore your router configuration:
• Log in to Linksys Smart Wi-Fi. (See "How to connect to Linksys Smart Wi-Fi"
on page 7.)
• Under Router Settings, click Troubleshooting.
• Click the Diagnostics tab.
• Under Router configuration, click Restore. The Restore Router Configuration
dialog box opens.
• Click Choose File to navigate to the location of your configuration file, then
select the file and click Open.
• To restore the configuration, click Start to Restore.
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