Must config restore be done on same hardware?

[JackElliott]

Our community radio station is running Gargoyle on a TP-Link TL-WR1043N/ND v2, which we bought pre-configured from the Gargoyle shop. It's fairly critical to day-to-day operations, and we've done a lot of configuration to the router settings to get it to work well in our situation. But if that router breaks, we'd be in a bad spot. A question: if we back up the router's config, can it only be restored to the same hardware -- IOW, should we be looking for another TL-WR1043N/ND v2 -- or can the settings be put back into any router running the same version of Gargoyle?

[ispyisail]

In my opinion its better an faster to reconfigure from scratch on new hardware.

Many security issues with old firmware.

Current firmware on current hardware

[Lantis]

Same model, same firmware version, OK.

Any of those things don't match and i don't recommend it.