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How to export and import Cisco ASA 5510's configuration?

I have a Cisco 5510 firewall and I am having trouble to find a way to export and import the configurations I made.
I know ASA can save the configuration to a tftp server by using the command: copy flash  tftp
But how can I import the configuration?
Thanks for the help.
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You can use the following command syntax to do what you want:

copy tftp://server[/path]/filename {startup-config | running-config}

This is from the ASA command line configuration guide.  Just use "startup-config" or "running-config" for the last option depending on where you want to put the configuration you're getting from the TFTP server.

Hope this helps...
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I tried the command but it did not work. I think I did something wrong.
copy tftp://192.168.81.20/c/test running-config
My tftp server Ip is 192.168.81.20. The file that I saved the configuration is test with no file extensions.
Please help.
Thanks
If you look at the TFTP server when you try to pull over the file, do you see any status or error messages?  Are you sure you have the right path in you "tftp://" part of the command?
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I typed the command copy tftp running-config    first
Then I typed the tftp server's IP, source file name which is test, destination filename which I typed running-config.
I got a response
command Ignored, configuration in progress.
I see that tftp server sends file to ASA but nothing has changed in ASA.
Thank you so much for the help.
What version 7.x code are you running?  Did you enter a "show run" command to see if there were changes?
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I am running version 7.0(6).
I made one change. I first save the config to tftp server. Then I delete one user account in ASA. Afterwards I imported the backup file from tftp server to ASA and I expect to see the deleted user account to come back. But that never happened.
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great instruction adn tahnks for putting the explanation in context. Thank you!