agreed, good find with that import/export feature, didn’t think to check for that since I don’t use tandoor. personally I’d just use the native import/export feature though since it feels less hacky than copying the whole DB imo. but if OP still wants to copy the files over, it might be easier to either just tar or tar + gzip rather than tar + zip so they can do it all in one command.
yup, this is what I do and it works great. just be careful if you add plugins that store a ton of metadata that changes a lot (or logs) because that can lead to some sync conflicts and you might wanna exclude them. I’ve just been ignoring the sync conflicts tho and haven’t had issues yet so maybe you could do the same