We would vote for the ability to do exports/imports in the background thread too. Fetching data via Rest API does not seem to disconnect logged users, so it may be could be possible to do the same with exports/imports.
This is not the issue of upgrade SERP. But serverip.dat in this case contains the value: 192.168.88.12:1301, so this is local IP of the server with SERP.
Anyway I don't understand what do you me...