are they basically all doing the same thing? duplicating?
absolutely fantastic resource by the way! Congratulations!
You’re right that they are basically doing the same thing which is creating a new site in Local from an existing site.
Of those four, “Blueprint”, and “Export/Import” are probably the most similar because they export a site and compress it as a zip file. The main difference for a Blueprint is that it also registers that zip with the Local app so that you can select from a Blueprint during the Create site flow.
In the case of “Cloning,” – Local will copy over some additional settings to keep things consistent. For example, if a site is already Connected to a remote Flywheel or WP Engine site, creating a Clone will copy over that reference to the remote site so that you don’t need to hunt down that remote site again.
CloudBackups are a little more of an outlier of all these. Yes they are “exporting” a site and you can create a new site from them. But under the hood, the thing that’s exported is actually a Restic repository instead of just a zip backup.
There’s probably some additional nuances to those things, but I think that covers most of differences!
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