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This is a general question prompted by observation. I have a joomla site and Akeeba backup 5.6.3 installed. I decided to create a linux vm and installed the LAMP stack. I used 'kickstart' to transfer my live site to my localhost vm. Everything appears to be fine with the exception of an extension I installed. That extension is tagBulut - Tag Cloud Generator. That was no longer working. The administrator can input tags from the module that displays in the tag cloud on the front end. The tags from the live site shows but now if I try to change the tags, the new ones don't show. With the exception of the hash, is the restored database an exact copy of the original?

I had to include my experience. So in a nutshell, using the kickstart, is the restored database an exact copy of the original? Except the hash of course.

Okay, I double checked and a slight correction is needed here. I am using Akeeba Backup 5.6.3 and Kicksart 5.4.0..

Okay,
I have done some check and the extension works now. Not sure what happened before. So I have no issues, however, my question still stands. Does kick start create an exact replica of the database with the exception of the hash prefix?

Does kick start create an exact replica of the database with the exception of the hash prefix?

In all material respects, yes. We ask MySQL how to recreate the table and store that information. Then we export all of the records into one or more sql files. The restore process reverses the backup, recreating the table from the stored instruction and importing the records.

The exception is the session table, it doesn't make any sense to back that table up since the data is obsolete in the new site. Another possible exception are the finder tables for the full text search. These tables tend to be large and it is usually faster to recreate them than to backup them up and restore th3m. There is a switch in Configuration to exclude those tables.

And finally, you have the opportunity to exclude tables from the backup under "Database Table Exclusion".

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