# Vault Transit Key Migration

You may encounter cases when you'd like to migrate your platform from one infrastructure to another and get to a point where you also need to migrate Vault transit keys used for sensitive data encryption/decryption.

#Export steps

Connect to the old Vault deployment using vault login
List all available Transit keys via vault list transit/keys
Make target keys exportable: vault write transit/keys/*key_name*/config allow_plaintext_backup=true exportable=true
Export each key: vault read transit/backup/*key_name*
Make sure to save the output in a safe place!

#Import steps

Connect to the new Vault deployment using vault login
Restore exported keys via vault write transit/restore/*key_name* backup=@*exported file*
Check whether they were imported by running vault list transit/keys
Enjoy!