diff --git a/etc/scripts/backfill_gene_id.py b/etc/scripts/backfill_gene_id.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5961cfd..0000000
--- a/etc/scripts/backfill_gene_id.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,116 +0,0 @@
-import argparse
-import logging
-
-from datetime import datetime
-from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
-from sqlalchemy import text
-
-import uta
-from uta.models import Gene, Transcript
-
-
-logger = None
-n = 50000
-
-
-def backfill_gene(uta_session: Session, gene_update_file: str) -> None:
-    logger.info("Dropping gene table contents")
-    uta_session.execute(text("DELETE FROM uta.gene;"))
-    uta_session.commit()
-
-    logger.info(f"Back filling gene table from {gene_update_file}")
-    now_ts = datetime.now()
-    i = 0
-    new_genes = []
-    with open(gene_update_file) as f:
-        for line in f:
-            if line.startswith("gene_id"):
-                continue
-
-            if i % n == 0:
-                if i > 0:
-                    logger.info(f"Bulk inserting {len(new_genes)} genes")
-                    uta_session.bulk_save_objects(new_genes)
-                    uta_session.commit()
-                logger.info(f"Processing chunk {int(i/n) + 1}")
-                new_genes = []
-
-            gene_id, hgnc, maploc, desc, summary, aliases, added = line.rstrip("\r\n").split("\t")
-            # set timestamp from file string, if empty set to now.
-            if added == "":
-                added_ts = now_ts
-            else:
-                added_ts = datetime.strptime(added, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f")
-
-            # clean up aliases
-            aliases = aliases.replace("{", "").replace("}", "")
-            if aliases == "-":
-                aliases = None
-
-            gene = Gene(
-                gene_id=gene_id,
-                hgnc=hgnc,
-                maploc=maploc if maploc else None,
-                descr=desc if desc else None,
-                summary=summary if desc else None,
-                aliases=aliases if aliases else None,
-                added=added_ts,
-            )
-            i += 1
-            new_genes.append(gene)
-
-    logger.info(f"Bulk inserting {len(new_genes)} genes")
-    uta_session.bulk_save_objects(new_genes)
-    uta_session.commit()
-    logger.info(f"Inserted {i} total genes")
-
-
-def backfill_transcript(uta_session: Session, transcript_update_file: str) -> None:
-    logger.info("Backfilling gene_id in transcript table")
-    tx_ac_to_gene_id = {}
-
-    logger.info(f"Reading transcript to gene id mappings from {transcript_update_file}")
-    with open(transcript_update_file) as f:
-        for line in f:
-            if line.startswith("origin"):
-                continue
-            _, tx_ac, gene_id, _ = line.rstrip("\r\n").split("\t")
-            tx_ac_to_gene_id[tx_ac] = gene_id
-    logger.info(f"  - {len(tx_ac_to_gene_id)} mappings read")
-
-    i = 0
-    txs = []
-    for tx_ac, gene_id in tx_ac_to_gene_id.items():
-        if i % n == 0:
-            if i > 0:
-                logger.info(f"Updating {len(txs)} transcripts")
-                uta_session.flush()
-
-            logger.info(f"Processing chunk {int(i/n) + 1}")
-            txs = []
-
-        tx = uta_session.query(Transcript).filter(Transcript.ac == tx_ac).one()
-        tx.gene_id = gene_id
-        txs.append(tx)
-        i += 1
-
-    logger.info(f"Updating {len(txs)} transcripts")
-    uta_session.flush()
-    uta_session.commit()
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Backfill gene_id in gene and transcript tables")
-    parser.add_argument("db_url", help="URL of the UTA database")
-    parser.add_argument("gene_update_file", type=str, help="File containing gene_id updates for gene table")
-    parser.add_argument("transcript_update_file", type=str, help="File containing gene_id updates for transcript table")
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s %(message)s')
-    logger = logging.getLogger("backfill_gene_id")
-
-    session = uta.connect(args.db_url)
-
-    backfill_gene(session, args.gene_update_file)
-    backfill_transcript(session, args.transcript_update_file)
-    session.close()
diff --git a/etc/scripts/create-new-schema.sh b/etc/scripts/create-new-schema.sh
index 5200e8d..d13100a 100755
--- a/etc/scripts/create-new-schema.sh
+++ b/etc/scripts/create-new-schema.sh
@@ -21,5 +21,4 @@ pg_dump -U uta_admin -h localhost -d uta -n "$source_uta_v" | \
 # create new schema
 gzip -cdq $dumps_dir/"$source_uta_v".pgd.gz | \
  sbin/pg-dump-schema-rename "$source_uta_v" "$dest_uta_v" | \
- sbin/pg-dump-schema-rename "uta_1_1" "$dest_uta_v" | \
- psql -U uta_admin -h localhost -d uta -aeE
\ No newline at end of file
+ psql -U uta_admin -h localhost -d uta -aeE
diff --git a/misc/gene-update/upgrade-uta-schema.sh b/misc/gene-update/upgrade-uta-schema.sh
index 9472fd9..d443141 100644
--- a/misc/gene-update/upgrade-uta-schema.sh
+++ b/misc/gene-update/upgrade-uta-schema.sh
@@ -50,12 +50,5 @@ python misc/gene-update/backfill_gene_id.py \
 # run Alembic migrations to add constraints and update existing views
 alembic -c etc/alembic.ini upgrade head
 
-## Copy data into destination schema
-# dump working schema
-pg_dump -U uta_admin -h localhost -d uta -n "$working_uta_v" | \
- gzip -c > "$dumps_dir/$working_uta_v".pgd.gz
-
-# copy data into destination schema
-gzip -cdq "$dumps_dir/$working_uta_v".pgd.gz | \
- sbin/pg-dump-schema-rename "$working_uta_v" "$dest_uta_v" | \
- psql -U uta_admin -h localhost -d uta -aeE
+## Rename schema to destination schema name
+psql -h localhost -U uta_admin -d uta -c "ALTER SCHEMA uta RENAME TO $dest_uta_v";