Recovery of network element configuration

A method is described for recovering corrupted configuration information stored in a recovering network element (R) of a telecommunication network. The network includes neighbor network elements (N1, N2, N3, N4) storing configuration information (Table 2) correlated to the configuration information stored in the recovering network element. The method includes the transmission to the recovering network element of correlated configuration information stored in the neighbor network elements. The method further includes selection of the neighbor network elements from possible network elements taking into account bandwidth of channel available for the transmission, estimation of time required for the transmission, estimation of round trip delay, number of intermediate network elements, reliability of the possible network elements.