# Possible to move Dremio definitions from one environment to another

**URL:** <https://community.dremio.com/t/possible-to-move-dremio-definitions-from-one-environment-to-another/411>\
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**Created:** [November 2, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/possible-to-move-dremio-definitions-from-one-environment-to-another/411 "2017-11-02T21:32:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_du\_Toit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Chris\_du\_Toit](https://community.dremio.com/u/Chris_du_Toit)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/possible-to-move-dremio-definitions-from-one-environment-to-another/411/1 "2017-11-02T21:32:19Z")

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Hi,

I am using Dremio to analyze and prep some data formations from a local directory "C:\data. At the moment the work is being done on my local machine. Would it be possible to export and transfer the work to someone else’s machine or a server running Dremio?

Thanks  
Chris

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/possible-to-move-dremio-definitions-from-one-environment-to-another/411/2 "2017-11-02T21:58:53Z")

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Hi @Chris_du_Toit,

If it is the same version on the target server, you can try the backup and restore

[Backup](https://docs.dremio.com/advanced-administration/backup.html)

And

[Restore](https://docs.dremio.com/advanced-administration/restore.html)

Thanks,  
@balaji.ramaswamy

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**Author:** ![Chris\_du\_Toit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Chris\_du\_Toit](https://community.dremio.com/u/Chris_du_Toit)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/possible-to-move-dremio-definitions-from-one-environment-to-another/411/3 "2017-11-02T22:56:26Z")

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Thanks very much for the quick response.

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**Author:** ![andrewsc32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58f4c7/32.png) [@andrewsc32](https://community.dremio.com/u/andrewsc32)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 1:00am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/possible-to-move-dremio-definitions-from-one-environment-to-another/411/4 "2017-11-14T01:00:59Z")

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I’m not able to run the backup command in a Windows environment. Is it only available in Linux?

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**Author:** ![can](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/can/32/40_2.png) [@can](https://community.dremio.com/u/can)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/possible-to-move-dremio-definitions-from-one-environment-to-another/411/5 "2017-11-14T21:35:28Z")

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@andrewsc32 this is currently not supported on Windows.

As a workaround, you can copy/backup all folders located under `C:\Users\<USER_NAME>\AppData\Local\Dremio`. On Windows, Dremio is configured to look for this path for metadata by default.