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As your ArcGIS Organization ages, it is likely that you will have broken, out of date, or unused content. Content that has broken links or other errors will not clone successfully. Depreciated or unused content will just take up extra space in your organization. We always recommend cleaning up the content in your ArcGIS Organization before starting a cloning operation. To support this process, we have created Clean My Org.

Set up Custom Roles

On the destination server, be sure to set up any Custom Roles that may be needed. This will make rewiring user roles easier once restoration begins.

Supporting Content

Some content will need to be copied over, backed up, or migrated manually. These are typically things that other content will rely on being in place before they are created, but are not something that BMO currently supports (due to how publishing content works with the various APIs).

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