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Use Export in OS Deployment

OSD lets you export images, models, drivers and scripts to a portable zip file, so you can transfer them to another installation. Points, servers and PXE servers can’t be exported.


Step Action
1 In the OS Deployment tree, right-click the item you want to export and select Export…. You can export a deployment point (its images, models, drivers and scripts), the Images, Models or Scripts node, or an individual image, model, driver or script. Right-click menu in the OS Deployment tree with Export selected
2 Select the components you want to export The export wizard with components selected for export
3 Specify the destination zip archive to store the exported components in. By default, the file is named OSD_Export_<date>.ZIP. The export wizard page for the destination zip file You can reuse a zip archive, but doing so may affect the performance of the export process. We therefore recommend creating new archives instead.
4 Click Commit to begin exporting the selected components. This operation can take some time, depending on the size of the selected components.