[NEST Users] Saving and loading entire network

Hi, I am new to pynest and am using it to implement a liquid state machine. It works marvelously for generating the network. My workflow is as follows: - Initialise kernel - Get stimulation episodes - Create neurons (including spike generators) - Connect neurons - nest.Simulate() - nest.GetStatus(recording_neurons) for readout at relevant timepoints I would like to save the network so I can run nest.Simulate() on other episodes in a real-time application, is there a straight-forward way to do so? I have tried pickling conn = nest.GetConnections() but to my knowledge that does not include a lot of details about the connection, like the weight. It also does not return where there is *no* connections, which means simply using nest.SetConnections(conn) prior to nest.Simulate() will not work to reproduce the previously generated network even if I initialise with all the same variables. I have found the functions GetNetwork() and GetNodes() but I'm not sure how I can use them, or if they are even useful for what I need. Cheers, Sock Ching