title: How to clone a WebSphere 8 profile
body: <p>I would like to clone an existing profile, start the server and modify it via the Admin Console. </p>
  
  <p>I already read the IBM documentation about</p>
  
  <pre><code> manageprofiles.bat
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but the manageprofiles tool does not contain something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code> # would be nice if a clone action exists
   manageprofiles.bat -clone -profileName base -targetProfileName base1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is what I need and I don't see a way to achieve this.
  The tool can create, delete, backup and restore a profile.</p>
  
  <p><strong>What I already tried</strong></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Copied the profile directory and renamed it</li>
  <li>Edited the paths in the bin/setupCmdLine.bat</li>
  <li>Added the profile to the AppServer/properties/profileRegistry.xml</li>
  <li>Executed manageprofiles -validateAndUpdateRegistry</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>But the profile is still not recognized by WAS. I can verify this by executing </p>
  
  <pre><code>manageprofiles -listProfiles
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do you clone or copy profiles?</p>
  
  <p>Is there a manual way? </p>
  
  <p>If so, which files in the profile's dir must be edited?</p>