# What will be the preferred way to migrate pinned files from cluster A to cluster B? can it be done externally without having internal access to cluster A

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**Created:** [October 13, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/what-will-be-the-preferred-way-to-migrate-pinned-files-from-cluster-a-to-cluster-b-can-it-be-done-externally-without-having-internal-access-to-cluster-a/9248 "2020-10-13T15:18:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![4tal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/d26b3c/32.png) [@4tal](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/4tal)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/what-will-be-the-preferred-way-to-migrate-pinned-files-from-cluster-a-to-cluster-b-can-it-be-done-externally-without-having-internal-access-to-cluster-a/9248/1 "2020-10-13T15:18:31Z")

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B is a managed cluster by Infura, and A is a cluster that I want to copy the files from.

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**Author:** ![Jorropo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/jorropo/32/3230_2.png) [@Jorropo](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/Jorropo)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/what-will-be-the-preferred-way-to-migrate-pinned-files-from-cluster-a-to-cluster-b-can-it-be-done-externally-without-having-internal-access-to-cluster-a/9248/2 "2020-10-14T10:09:34Z")

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Just pin them on the cluster B.  
IPFS cluster only manages the pins but files exchanges and discovery are done with IPFS.  
So the cluster B will download from the cluster A, maybe other from B while they download or others random IPFS node having your files (it’s the magic of IPFS this will get done depending of speed and availability).

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**Author:** ![4tal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/d26b3c/32.png) [@4tal](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/4tal)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/what-will-be-the-preferred-way-to-migrate-pinned-files-from-cluster-a-to-cluster-b-can-it-be-done-externally-without-having-internal-access-to-cluster-a/9248/3 "2020-10-14T10:47:38Z")

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Thanks, so I guess I can iterate on all the pinned files in my cluster and pin them on another cluster.