How to back up and restore a config to a different router?

It is sad but I have been using MT for about 9-10 yrs now and I still don’t know how to properly back up and restore a router config from one router to another. I always copy from the old conifig file and paste it into a terminal on the new/replacement router. I would like a way to just create/export a back up file and import it to a new router without having to screw around with copy/pasting. I have looked over config management in the manual more times than I care to count but never can get a clean import.

I would like to create some default configurations for CPE’s and customer routers as well as be able to create a full back up of our network routers and be able to restore it to another RB in case of hardware failure of the original.

It would be of immense help if someone could help me out with this.

Thanks,
Chadd

Starting from 5.12 it is easy:

  1. /export compact file=111
  2. /import file=111
  3. recreate your users and passwords.

What are the steps to do it normally without /export compact ?