Copying Planning Books, Macros, Background jobs etc

Dear Friends,

When we have to perform a major change in the Production system like addition of a new characteristic in APO-DP, can we create a new Planning Area and copy the Key figures, Planning Books/data views, Macros, all Planning jobs etc from the existing Planning area for Testing and POC purpose instead of creating the same things again?

Your ideas and suggestions will be of great help. Thanks in advance.

Regards

Bala