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Is it possible to copy the existing VMs for a cluster to clone it, or restore backup images of the VM machines to create a copy/clone, or to copy the deployment files to make a clone/copy of an existing cluster?
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No, cloning or copying self-managed clusters is not supported and can cause major issues. It is not supported and not on our roadmap.
Rather than attempting to clone the cluster, the supported way would be to use your standard deployment process to deploy a second cluster from scratch and then restore a backup or use `REPLICATE DATABASE` to replicate the data over to the newly deployed cluster.
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