thanks, will give this a try these days...

regards
-stefan-

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:27 -0600, Dominique Legault wrote:
> like Stefan said. 
> 
> you can use the scp command: man scp to find out how to use it.
> I would just copy the configuration files. using scp like:
> 
> scp -pr [email protected]:/etc/* /home/username/wrt54g/etc
> 
> then you have a backup copy of your configuration files if they are
> stored in /etc.
> 
> I'm not sure about copying the whole JFFS filesystem. 
> 
> if you checkout the trunk source files you can build the packages you
> choose through the menuconfig command, 
> then you can modify the source packages to include your configuration
> files directly. 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Dominique
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Weedy <[email protected]> wrote:
>         
>         Stefan Palme wrote:
>         > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:48 -0600, Dominique Legault wrote:
>         >> When you flash the system back to the original firmware all
>         changes
>         >> that you have made to the current running version of the
>         OpenWrt
>         >> installation will be lost. I would recommend backing up all
>         >> configuration files.
>         >
>         > Ok.
>         > What is the best method to backup all my locally modified
>         stuff?
>         > Somewhere I've read about just backup up /dev/mtdblock/4
>         which should
>         > contain a complete JFFS filesystem with all modifications I
>         have made
>         > in comparison to the r/o flash image. Is this the right way?
>         >
>         > thanks and regards
>         > -stefan-
>         >
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>         Check out the source, and scp -pr r...@router:/jffs/
>         sources/files/.
>         then clean up the files dir and select all your packages to be
>         compiled
>         into the image in menuconfig. files/ should only contain etc/
>         (ie config
>         files) and modifications to default files (ie: i made a edit
>         to
>         /lib/network/ppp.sh so i have that)
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