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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>

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

<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.

<p>All the data on this USB stick will be lost.</p>

<p>Some data might still be recovered using advanced forensics tools.</p>

Choose **Apps&nbsp;▸ Tails&nbsp;▸ Tails Cloner** to open *Tails Cloner*.

[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_cloner.png class="pc-clone mac-clone screenshot" alt="Tails Cloner: 'Clone the current Tails'"]]

[[!img install/inc/screenshots/tails_cloner_upgrade.png 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_cloner_persistent_storage.png class="screenshot" alt="Option: **Clone the current Persistent Storage** below **Clone the current Tails**"]]</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>

<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>

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

To start the <span class="pc-clone mac-clone">installation, click on the <b>Install</b> button.</span> <span class="upgrade">upgrade, click on the <b>Upgrade</b> button.</span>

<p>Read the warning message in the confirmation dialog.</p>

<p>Click <b>Delete All Data and Install</b> to confirm.</p>

The <span class="pc-clone mac-clone">installation</span> <span class="upgrade">upgrade</span> takes a few minutes.

<div class="bug">
<p>The progress bar usually freezes for some time
while synchronizing data on disk.</p>
</div>