# Regarding Saving current Wowza configurations and/or Instance Configs

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/regarding-saving-current-wowza-configurations-and-or-instance-configs/44839>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [April 12, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/regarding-saving-current-wowza-configurations-and-or-instance-configs/44839 "2015-04-12T12:53:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![jason\_aston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@jason\_aston](https://community.wowza.com/u/jason_aston)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/regarding-saving-current-wowza-configurations-and-or-instance-configs/44839/1 "2015-04-12T12:53:19Z")

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So I’ve spend a few weeks getting my instance up and running and fine tuning performance and streaming attributes as much as I can. I think I’ve tinkered with so many things that I am not sure that I could reproduce what I have done.

Is there a way to save a copy maybe of my instance or at least my specific wowza configurations so I have a map of what I had done just in case something terrible happens to the instance?

Any direction on where I can look would be helpful. I know of startup packages but not sure how I would create one after the fact. Or better yet if I could create a carbon copy of my current instance (complete with all wowza server settings) that I could somehow use to re-start an identical instance, that would be great.

Figured I’d ask…thanks.

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 8:47am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/regarding-saving-current-wowza-configurations-and-or-instance-configs/44839/2 "2015-04-13T08:47:31Z")

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Hello there.

This seems more like an server OS administration question. But you can take a look at the upgrade guide for a basic idea:

[Upgrade Instructions (Backup server configuration, content, and custom files)](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-upgrade-wowza-media-server-software-to-wowza-streaming-engine#instructions)

I hope this helps answer your question.

Kind regards,

Salvadore