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# Clone profiles for clone requests

# Clone profiles for clone requests {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Xanadu
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* Updated August 1, 2024
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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 {#system-profile-clone__section_frp_154_yjb}

Navigate to System CloneClone 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

{#system-profile-clone__ul_r3b_gw4_yjb}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 actionsConfigureForm 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 CloneClone Definition.

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