# Complete Export and Pallets
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-export-and-pallets/73788
**Category:** General
**Created:** [17 January 2023 02:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-export-and-pallets/73788 "2023-01-17T02:44:37Z")
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### Author:  [@allacmc](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/allacmc)
#### Post date: [17 January 2023 02:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-export-and-pallets/73788/1 "2023-01-17T02:44:37Z")
I know there are already some posts here in this forum related to this.
But I found them all very old and it doesn't hurt to ask.
Recently I had to install every app I developed on a new server and I saw that the palettes don't go together and that's an extreme problem on the new server.
I know that all the references to the palettes are in the file: package.json
Even so, it doesn't hurt to ask: Is there any way through the interface to make a complete backup including the palettes?
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [17 January 2023 07:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-export-and-pallets/73788/2 "2023-01-17T07:16:37Z")
If the system you are copying to is identical to the original (hardware architecture, OS, nodejs version etc) then you should be able to copy the complete .node-red folder across and it should run ok. However, generally, you should copy everything _except_ the node\_modules folder. It is then simple to install all required nodes to the palette by going into the .node-red folder and running `npm install`.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [17 January 2023 14:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-export-and-pallets/73788/3 "2023-01-17T14:16:51Z")
> [@allacmc](#):
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> Even so, it doesn't hurt to ask: Is there any way through the interface to make a complete backup including the palettes?
I've posted backup scripts before - they are mostly about doing mutli-level daily/weekly/monthly backups.
What to back up is really simple - at least for a full duplication. Everything in your userDir folder (normally `~/.node-red` for the user id running node-red) _except_ for the `node_modules` folder. As Colin says, that is recreated by running `npm install` after restoring the backup to a new folder.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [18 March 2023 14:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/complete-export-and-pallets/73788/4 "2023-03-18T14:17:13Z")
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