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[captain_tinker]

Hello folks,
  I'm curious about something, and I am not sure if this is normal behavior, or if it is a problem.  In the past, every time I've updated my firmware on my DIR-655, I've always gone and made a download of the configuration, so that I can restore it after the fw update.  Every single time I try to do the restore, it fails and says it can't use it, (I don't remember the exact error right now) and I have to re-set everything up from scratch again.  It takes a long time to do it, and I don't always remember every little detail that I had set.  I tried to write it all down last time, but I think I forgot some stuff.  So my question is, is it normal behavior, or is this supposed to work?  I am currently on FW Version 1.31NA.  I have never had any problems with any fw version, like it sounds like a lot of people here do, I typically upgrade when a new version becomes available, just to be at the latest, but in this case, I haven't wanted to go through all the rigamarole of re-configuring if the restore doesn't work again. 

-capT

[EddieZ]

9/10 times restoring the config file works OK. With major releases (from 1.2x to 1.3x0 it is better to reconfigure manually. If the saved config is 'damaged' just a little bit (literally  wireless saves can cause this) the reloaded config will cause problems.

[captain_tinker]

Well, I've never done it wirelessly, I've always figured it was safer to do it wired, just in case.  Frankly, I don't remember what versions I've gone to in the past, I just know it's happened three times now in a row.  Is there a way to tell if the config is damaged BEFORE I do the upgrade so that I can hope that it will restore properly? 

-capT