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How to Clone a Table From One Prepare Instance Into Another


Hi

Looking to quickly replicate an existing data pipeline in a new prepare instance. Is it possible to clone a table in one prepare instance into another, or somehow export a table from one prepare instance and import into another?

I cannot see any option, so my guess is no, but just thought I’d ask.

Regards

Paul

Best answer by Trine Stuhr

Hey ​@Paul Bridge, quickly chiming in as well as I may think I know what you need. You have your Prepare and now a cloned Prepare Instance. And now you want to “copy”/migrate the data and your logic from your Prepare to the new cloned Prepare Instance - check out this guide (scroll half way through. You may need to place your Prepare instances in seperate environments):  Migrate instances across Environments | Community
But as Devin points out, you can only migrate the entire instance and not on a table level. 

I think the Blueprint functionality solves somewhat the same, but maybe has a bit of different purpose.

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devin.tiemens
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Hi, Untill now it is only possible to Copy the whole Instance, so not Table specific.


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Hi Devin

Are you aware of a article which describes the process of copying the instance?


devin.tiemens
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Hi,

 

Maybe this helps: 

 

Actually it's this button:

 


Thomas Lind
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Hi ​@Paul Bridge 

The blueprint option can help with specific setups that can be repurposed based on a setup of a data source in a Prepare instance.

A popular data source will mostly have the same tables which likely will be used to give the same result. So instead on focusing on one table it will be a selection of tables that can be shared.


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Hi Devin

I think that just clones the instance environment, not the tables within the instance environment.

@Thomas Lind I’ll take a look at blueprints - thanks


Trine Stuhr
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Hey ​@Paul Bridge, quickly chiming in as well as I may think I know what you need. You have your Prepare and now a cloned Prepare Instance. And now you want to “copy”/migrate the data and your logic from your Prepare to the new cloned Prepare Instance - check out this guide (scroll half way through. You may need to place your Prepare instances in seperate environments):  Migrate instances across Environments | Community
But as Devin points out, you can only migrate the entire instance and not on a table level. 

I think the Blueprint functionality solves somewhat the same, but maybe has a bit of different purpose.


devin.tiemens
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Exactly what ​@Trine Stuhr mentiones, it should be combined with a migration of the environment like one also apply for OTAP environments.


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  • May 28, 2025

Hi Trine and Devin

That makes sense now with the migrate instance documentation. I’ll have a look and see if this will work for me.

Regards


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Hi Paul,

if it is more work to clone/migrate a whole instance and remove what you don't need please add your use-case and upvote this idea: 

https://support.timextender.com/ideas/allow-data-movement-from-prepare-to-prepare-3266

 


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