---
title: "Cloning a Pantheon Project"
url: "https://michalak.world/posts/pantheon-cloning-a-project/"
description: "Cloning a Pantheon Project"
summary: "If you need to clone a project within the Pantheon ecosystem Terminus is a great tool to use.  Terminus has an additional plugin to clone sites."
date: 2019-08-08
lastmod: 2026-08-19
tags: ["Drupal 7","Drupal 8","Drupal","Security","Update","Drupal Development","Drupal Commerce","Update"]
section: "posts"
author: "Michael Michalak"
site: "https://michalak.world/"
---

# Cloning a Pantheon Project

Cloning a Pantheon Project

If you need to clone a project within the Pantheon ecosystem Terminus is a great tool to use.

First, [install Terminus](https://pantheon.io/docs/terminus/install) and then add the [site clone plugin](https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus-site-clone-plugin).

After authenticating with terminus use the site:clone command
```
terminus site:clone <source>.<env> <destination>.<env>
```

`<source>` and `<destination>` are either the site names or the site UUIDs.  `<env>` is the environment, e.g. dev, test, prod or multi dev.

## Resources
- [Install Terminus](https://pantheon.io/docs/terminus/install)
- [Terminus's Site Clone Plugin](https://github.com/pantheon-systems/terminus-site-clone-plugin)
- [Terminus Documentation](https://pantheon.io/docs/terminus)
- [Pantheon Migration Documentation](https://pantheon.io/docs/migrate)