Your division’s Portal for ArcGIS gets a lot of attention for its high standards and engagement, other departments want to replicate it. Your in-house portal has gained its maturity, you feel now is the time to expose it to the outside world. Your portal is on aging hardware, you feel now is the time to migrate it to newer infrastructure. In all these cases, you are dealing a requirement of cloning an existing portal to create a new one. We are constantly expanding the capabilities of the ArcGIS API for Python to suit such requirements. In this session, we will show how you can perform a shallow cloning where you replicate the users, groups and their items from an existing portal to a new one.