Clone profiles for clone requests

A clone profile enables you to store predefined target and clone options. The clone profile automatically populates your clone request with your selected profile settings.

Clone profiles

Navigate to System Clone > Clone Profiles to view your clone profiles. With a clone profile, you can:

• Create a profile with specific target instance and option settings, tables to exclude, data to preserve, and cleanup scripts to run
• Create a clone request directly from the clone profile
• Apply the clone profile to a clone request

You can create, edit, and delete clone profiles from the Clone Profile view. The system profile is a read-only clone profile that you can't delete. It shows a predefined list of table exclusions, data preservers, and cleanup scripts. This list is based on the plugins that your instance contains.

To set a new clone profile as the default profile used when you request a clone, select the Make Default option. Verify that this is the correct clone profile you want to use for the clone scenario you are requesting.

If you create a new data preserver, exclusion, or cleanup script, it is not automatically added to your clone profiles. To add a preserver, exclusion, or cleanup script, open the clone profile, select Additional actions > Configure > Form Layout, and move the new preserver to the selected list.

You are not required to use clone profiles. If you leave the clone profile field empty when scheduling a clone, the system uses the exclude tables, data preservers, and cleanup scripts configured under System Clone > Clone Definition.