Fork your service
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Fork your Aiven service in order to make a copy of the service. You can use it to create a development copy of your production environment, set up a snapshot to analyze an issue or test an upgrade, or create an instance in a different cloud/geographical location/under a different plan.

Learn more :doc:`about service forking <../concepts/service-forking>`.

Fork a service using the console
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1. Log in to the Aiven console. 
2. Go to your **Services**, and open the service you want to fork.
3. On the **Overview** tab, scroll down to **Fork Database** > **New database fork**. 
4. Select the new service region and plan. 
5. Click **Create fork**.

You have now copied your Aiven service.

You can now apply any integrations you may need for the copy. 


Fork a service using the Aiven client (CLI)
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1. Prepare the command to create a new service, this will contain the new copy of your data store.

2. Add the ``service_to_fork_from`` parameter to specify the service to use as the source. 
Change service type accordingly with ``-t``, run the following command to see available options::

    avn service types        

For example, if you want to create a fork of your ``forker`` PostgreSQL® service, and name it ``forked``, the command would be something like::

    avn service create forked -t pg --plan business-4 -c service_to_fork_from=forker
    
You have now copied your Aiven service.

You can now apply any integrations you may need for the copy.