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<h1 id="install" class="step pc-clone mac-clone">Install Tails by cloning</h1>
<h1 id="upgrade" class="step upgrade">Upgrade your primary Tails by cloning</h1>

<h1 id="install" class="step pc-clone mac-clone">Install Tails by cloning</h1>
<h1 id="upgrade" class="step upgrade">Upgrade your primary Tails by cloning</h1>

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[[!img install/inc/infography/clone-tails.png link="no" class="clone upgrade-tails upgrade-os" alt=""]]

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<p class="upgrade">
In this step, you will upgrade your primary Tails from the
<span class="upgrade-clone">other</span>
<span class="upgrade-tails upgrade-os">intermediary</span>
Tails using
<span class="application"i>Tails Cloner</spani>.
</p>

<p class="upgrade">
In this step, you will upgrade your primary Tails from the
<span class="upgrade-clone">other</span>
<span class="upgrade-tails upgrade-os">intermediary</span>
Tails using
<i>Tails Cloner</i>.
</p>

1. Plug
<span class="pc-clone mac-clone">the new</span>
<span class="upgrade">your primary Tails</span>
USB stick <span class="upgrade">in addition to the
<span class="upgrade-clone">other</span>
<span class="upgrade-tails upgrade-os">intermediary</span>
Tails</span> into the computer.

1. Plug
<span class="pc-clone mac-clone">the new</span>
<span class="upgrade">your primary Tails</span>
USB stick <span class="upgrade">in addition to the
<span class="upgrade-clone">other</span>
<span class="upgrade-tails upgrade-os">intermediary</span>
Tails</span> into the computer.

<div class="caution pc-clone mac-clone">
<p>All the data on this USB stick will be lost.</p>
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1. Choose
<span class="menuchoice">
<span class="guimenu">Applications</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guisubmenu">Tails</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guimenuitem">Tails Cloner</span>
</span>
to start <span class="application">Tails Cloner</span>.

[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_installcloner.png link="no" class="pc-clone mac-clone screenshot" alt="Tails Cloner: 'Clone the current Tails'"]]

[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_cloner.png link="no" class="pc-clone mac-clone screenshot" alt="Tails Cloner: 'Clone the current Tails'"]]

[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_installcloner_upgrade.png link="no" class="upgrade screenshot" alt="Tails Cloner: 'Clone the current Tails'"]]

[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_cloner_upgrade.png link="no" class="upgrade screenshot" alt="Tails Cloner: 'Clone the current Tails'"]]

<p class="clone upgrade-clone">If the other Tails has a Persistent Storage, another
option <b>Clone the current Persistent Storage</b> is available.</p>

<p class="clone upgrade-clone">[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_installer_upgradcloner_persistent_storage.png link="no" class="upgrade" alt="Tails Cloner: 'screenshot" alt="Option: **Clone the current Persistent Storage** below **Clone the current Tails'**"]]</p>

<p class="clone upgrade-clone">[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_cloner_persistent_storage.png link="no" class="screenshot" alt="Option: **Clone the current Persistent Storage** below **Clone the current Tails**"]]</p>

<p class="clone upgrade-clone"></p>

<div class="clone upgrade-clone">

<div class="note upgrade">
<p>The Persistent Storage of your Tails USB stick will be preserved.</p>p>If you select the option <b>Clone the current Persistent Storage</b>, the
Persistent Storage of the other Tails is also be copied.
<pspan class="upgrade-clone">The Persistent Storage of the other Tails will not be copied.</p>
</div<b>Upgrade</b> button becomes unavailable
and you can only [[reinstall|install/clone]] and delete all data on the
target USB stick.</span></p>

<p>If you select the option <b>Clone the current Persistent Storage</b>, the
Persistent Storage of the other Tails is also be copied.
<span class="upgrade-clone">The <b>Upgrade</b> button becomes unavailable
and you can only [[reinstall|install/clone]] and delete all data on the
target USB stick.</span></p>

<div class="bug upgrade-clone">

<p>In the future, we want to allow cloning the Persistent Storage when
upgrading as well, for example to make it quicker to update a [[backup Tails
USB stick|doc/persistent_storage/backup]]. ([[!tails_ticket 20362]])</p>

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Choose <span class="pc-clone mac-clone">the new</span> <span class="upgrade">your</span> USB stick in the <span class="guilabel">Target USB stick</span> menu.