How to clone menus in Drupal? I want to implement conditional menus, where different options appear depending on the user's role.

In Display Different Menu links an content depending upon user role or user logged in, user "nevets" suggested making multiple menus each with the appropriate links, and then restricting the visibility of a particular menu by user role.

In my case, the different menus might share a lot of links, so I thought of cloning the links to avoid having to re-enter them when making the second and subsequent menus. 

I found the Menu clone? module, but the project page warns:


  D7: This module is still in beta and is a complete rewrite of the original port. It is never recommended to use beta versions on a production environment. Please keep a backup of your database to avoid problems later on.


How can I achieve this? any suggestions?
If you want to be professional, use  Menu clone module all right. Simply do it on development copy of client's site.

It's never a good idea to use beta modules on production site without testing them on devel and stage, but if you do test and they work for your particular site, it's usually safe*. And if all you need are cloned menus, you can use it and then uninstall before stage -> production migration so it will never even appear on your production server.



* As safe as your tests were good.