{"revision":"c10276e953456835cdbb1f3a60d58ae1980be353","document":{"id":29221,"path":"it-operations-management/cloud-configuration-governance/export-import-policy.md","title":"Export or import a cloud policy","bundle":null,"doc_type":null,"release":"australia","body":"\n# Export or import a cloud policy\n\nTo 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.\n\n## Before you begin\n\nRole required: sn\\_cmp.cloud\\_admin or admin.\n\n## Procedure\n\n1.  On the Cloud Admin Portal, navigate to **Govern** > **Policies**.\n\n2.  Perform the following action to export a policy:\n\n    1.  Click the export icon for the policy.\n\n        \\[Omitted image \"export-cloud-policy.png\"\\] Alt text: Export icon for a policy\n\n        The instance generates an update set.\n\n3.  To import a policy, install the update set as follows:\n\n    1.  On the instance to import to, navigate to **System Update Sets** > **Retrieved Update Sets**.\n\n    2.  Click the **Import Update Set from XML** related link.\n\n    3.  In the Import XML popup, click **Choose File**, select the file, and then click **Upload**.\n\n    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.\n\n    **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.\n\n\n**Parent Topic:**[Policies for Cloud Provisioning](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/cloud-configuration-governance/cloud-policy.md)\n\n**Related topics**  \n\n\n[System update sets](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/application-development/system-update-sets.md)\n\n"}}