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# Export or import a cloud policy

# Export or import a cloud policy {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Yokohama
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* Updated January 30, 2025
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To back up, move, or restore a policy, you can export and import the policy as an
update set. The update set includes rules, conditions, actions, scripts, and script
categories.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn_cmp.cloud_admin or admin.

## Procedure

1. On the Cloud Admin Portal, navigate to GovernPolicies.
2. Perform the following action to export a policy:
   1. Click the export icon for the policy.  
      The instance generates an update set.
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3. To import a policy, install the update set as follows:
   1. On the instance to import to, navigate to System Update SetsRetrieved Update Sets.
   2. Click the Import Update Set from XML related link.
   3. In the Import XML popup, click Choose File, select the file, and then click Upload.

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   If a policy that you exported from the source environment exists in the target environment and both policies have the same sys_id, then the policy in the target environment is updated.  
   Note:  
   If the policy that you exported from the source environment exists in the target environment, and the policies have different sys_ids, then an error occurs during the import process. You must export a different policy from the source environment or delete the policy with the same name in the target environment.
**Related topics**   

* [System update sets](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=system-update-sets&version=yokohama&pubname=yokohama-application-development&ft:locale=en-US)

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