If it is the same pool, you can just do a clone. Send/recv is completely unnecessary there. As for flushing the database first, it is unnecessary as long as th

If it is the same pool, you can just do a clone. Send/recv is completely unnecessary there. As for flushing the database first, it is unnecessary as long as the database is ACID compliant. If you use MySQL, you will probably want to freeze and flush the database first to be absolutely certain of safety. DDL statements and a few minor other things in MySQL are known not to be ACID compliant.