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title: "Duplicate a Data Room"
lang: en
canonical_url: https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/duplicate-a-data-room
description: "Copy a Peony data room's files and folders into a fresh room — to reuse a structure for the next deal, or to launch with clean analytics after internal testing. Step by step, plus what the copy includes."
---

Duplicating copies every file and folder in a room into a new one. Use it to:

- **Reuse a structure** for the next deal — the same folders and templates, a fresh set of visitors.
- **Launch with clean analytics.** If your team clicked through the room while testing, share a copy so visitor analytics and the audit trail start from zero.

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## Steps

1. Go to where the room lives (for example your team space or your private space).
2. Hover over the room and click its **…** icon in the top-right corner of the card, or right-click the room, then choose **Duplicate**. A _Duplicating folder…_ notice appears. Larger rooms take longer — stay on the page until it finishes.

   ![A data room card with the … icon highlighted in its top-right corner, and its menu open with Duplicate highlighted](https://www.peony.ink/docs/duplicate-a-data-room/room-menu-duplicate.png)

3. The copy appears next to the original as **`<room name> (Copy)`**. By default it is a regular **folder**, not a data room, as the label under its name shows.

   ![The original Project Falcon data room next to Project Falcon (Copy), which is labelled Folder](https://www.peony.ink/docs/duplicate-a-data-room/copy-appears-as-folder.png)

4. Open the copy's **…** menu and choose **Convert to data room**. See [Convert a folder to a data room](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/convert-a-folder-to-a-data-room) for the details.
5. Rename it from the same menu, then set up its **Permissions**: groups, links, NDA and security settings. See [Share a data room link](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/share-a-data-room-link).

## What the Copy Includes

| Copied                                       | Not copied — set up again                                                       |
| -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Every file and folder, in the same structure | Sharing groups and their links                                                  |
| The current version of each file             | Group settings: permissions, NDA, watermark, expiry and other security controls |
|                                              | Visitor analytics and the audit trail (they start empty)                        |

**Analytics and the audit trail are not copied.** The copy starts with an empty analytics dashboard and an empty audit trail: none of the original room's visitor activity, views or downloads carry over, so you get a clean record from the day you share the copy.

Because links belong to groups, **nobody who had the original room's link can open the copy** until you share a new link.

## Tips

- **Testing before a launch?** Build and test in one room, then duplicate it and share only the copy. Or test in a separate scratch room from the start.
- Keep the original until the copy is set up and checked.

## Common Questions

#### How do I duplicate a data room?

Open the room's **…** menu, choose **Duplicate**, then open the copy's **…** menu and choose **Convert to data room**.

#### What does the copy include?

All files and folders. Sharing groups, links, and their security settings are not copied, and analytics and the audit trail start empty.

#### We tested the room internally. How do we launch with clean analytics?

Duplicate the room, convert the copy to a data room, set up groups and links on the copy, and share that.

#### Can I download a whole room at the end of a deal?

The room's **…** menu includes **Download**. Archive download is included on the Deal Team and Enterprise plans. See [Plans & pricing](https://www.peony.ink/docs/account-billing/plans-and-pricing).

#### Duplicating stopped with an error after a few minutes.
A workspace runs one folder operation — duplicating or moving — at a time. Wait for any other copy or move to finish, then try again. Stay on the page while it runs.

## Related

- [Upload, move & organize files](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/upload-and-organize-files)
- [Convert a folder to a data room](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/convert-a-folder-to-a-data-room)
- [Upload a new version](https://www.peony.ink/docs/getting-started/upload-a-new-version)
- [File storage & permanent deletion](https://www.peony.ink/docs/concepts/how-file-storage-works)

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