G'day there...

I've got a situation where a router in the field is failing and I want to replace it, I have another one with exact same hardware configuration (well, exact in except mac addresses).

How can I copy the configuration from the device in the field, to the device here in the office so it can be rushed out and replaced in seconds?

I've tried "backup/copy/restore" but that does NOT work, all the interfaces get renamed and all the fields requireing interfaces from the original configuration become "(unknown)"

I've tried "export/copy/import" but it gives me errors, and further investigation has shown me that the exported data isn't in sequence, IE: things that require a non-default profile are created before the profile is and it fails to import.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks

just a proposal:
i made a configuration text file (export file=config) and changed it a bit to give the interfaces always the same name. this depends on a quite similar hardware configuration, but changes are easily done with a text editor.
example: and so on. later config-commands can use the interface names.

regards.
matthias