Export/Import a given Sonar quality profile

In my organisation we have 2 environments: production and pre-production. Quality profiles are tuned and tested in the pre-production environment.

I would like to have an easy way to export a full quality profile when it is ready to be used in production, then import it in production sonar instance.

Currently there is the backup functionality but this is not what I want as I don't want to loose/modify any existing configuration in the production instance.

I think I can also export the 3 plugins configuration (pmd, checkstyle and findbugs) then create a new profile in production instance using these 3 files but it is a bit complicated as we are loosing alerts configuration and it will not scale well when there will be additional plugins.

So I am suggesting to add a new functionality that allow a full backup of one quality profile, then a way to import this backup possibly in a separate instance (being able to change the destination profile name would be good).

Thanks