# Clone a DB

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/clone-a-db/4812>\
**Category:** Percona Server for MySQL 5.6\
**Created:** [March 28, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/clone-a-db/4812 "2016-03-28T11:18:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![EmergeBrandon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9e5f3/32.png) [@EmergeBrandon](https://forums.percona.com/u/EmergeBrandon)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 11:18am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/clone-a-db/4812/1 "2016-03-28T11:18:36Z")

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I have database text\_production and I want to create a database called txt\_development with the same information. I have a 3 node Galera cluster with percona 5.6, I dont want to cause any galera locks. So I dont think I can just dump the data from the production db right into the development db. Is there an easy way to do this. The DB is ~53GB.

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![EmergeBrandon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9e5f3/32.png) [@EmergeBrandon](https://forums.percona.com/u/EmergeBrandon)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/clone-a-db/4812/2 "2016-03-28T16:11:40Z")

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So I have a dump of the DB now, I just want to import it into a brand new DB, can I just create the new DB and import the file with mysql dump? Im just affraid of locking up galera.