diff --git a/CondFormats/BeamSpotObjects/interface/BeamSpotOnlineObjects.h b/CondFormats/BeamSpotObjects/interface/BeamSpotOnlineObjects.h
index 3a6f171a4ddc1..91765287a5377 100644
--- a/CondFormats/BeamSpotObjects/interface/BeamSpotOnlineObjects.h
+++ b/CondFormats/BeamSpotObjects/interface/BeamSpotOnlineObjects.h
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ class BeamSpotOnlineObjects : public BeamSpotObjects {
   enum TimeParamIndex { CREATE_TIME = 0, START_TIMESTAMP = 1, END_TIMESTAMP = 2, TSIZE = 3 };
 
   /// Setters Methods
+  // copy all copiable members from BeamSpotObjects
+  void copyFromBeamSpotObject(const BeamSpotObjects& bs);
+
   // set lastAnalyzedLumi_, last analyzed lumisection
   void setLastAnalyzedLumi(int val) { lastAnalyzedLumi_ = val; }
 
@@ -164,4 +167,4 @@ class BeamSpotOnlineObjects : public BeamSpotObjects {
 
 std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream&, BeamSpotOnlineObjects beam);
 
-#endif
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+#endif
diff --git a/CondFormats/BeamSpotObjects/src/BeamSpotOnlineObjects.cc b/CondFormats/BeamSpotObjects/src/BeamSpotOnlineObjects.cc
index dfee339cae9e8..9517de935d274 100644
--- a/CondFormats/BeamSpotObjects/src/BeamSpotOnlineObjects.cc
+++ b/CondFormats/BeamSpotObjects/src/BeamSpotOnlineObjects.cc
@@ -92,6 +92,27 @@ cond::Time_t BeamSpotOnlineObjects::endTimeStamp() const {
 }
 
 // setters
+void BeamSpotOnlineObjects::copyFromBeamSpotObject(const BeamSpotObjects& bs) {
+  setType(bs.beamType());
+  setPosition(bs.x(), bs.y(), bs.z());
+  setSigmaZ(bs.sigmaZ());
+  setdxdz(bs.dxdz());
+  setdydz(bs.dydz());
+  setBeamWidthX(bs.beamWidthX());
+  setBeamWidthY(bs.beamWidthY());
+  setBeamWidthXError(bs.beamWidthXError());
+  setBeamWidthYError(bs.beamWidthYError());
+  setEmittanceX(bs.emittanceX());
+  setEmittanceY(bs.emittanceY());
+  setBetaStar(bs.betaStar());
+
+  for (int i = 0; i < 7; ++i) {
+    for (int j = 0; j < 7; ++j) {
+      setCovariance(i, j, bs.covariance(i, j));
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 void BeamSpotOnlineObjects::setNumTracks(int nTracks) {
   BeamSpotOnlineObjectsImpl::setOneParam(intParams_, NUM_TRACKS, nTracks);
 }
@@ -173,4 +194,4 @@ std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, BeamSpotOnlineObjects beam) {
   beam.print(ss);
   os << ss.str();
   return os;
-}
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+}