Backup/export/import Preferences

The first URL in the original posting points to a topic which points to unmaintained uploader code.

At the moment, I am giving some advice to a colleague on establishing a new discourse instance.

What is the state‑of‑play regarding exporting site configurations in machine and human‑readable form? And importing site configurations in machine‑readable form.

At the moment and under admin rights, I am reduced to taking a set of screenshots of my  ☰ ▸ Admin ▸ Settings … Only show overridden, stripping these together in GIMP, and forwarding the resulting PNG to my friend for viewing. Kinda clumsy.

Any help with a better method much appreciated.