Hi Michael,
Thanks for reaching out with your Total Upkeep inquiries!
What you’re explaining is exactly how Total Upkeep transfers work. You’ll have the ability to create a backup at your source URL and install the very same backup at the destination site using a magic link which you’d generate in the Transfers section of your Total Upkeep dashboard.
Once you transfer your staging site to production site it will totally wipe the production site replacing it with the backup you created at your source URL. You just need to have Total Upkeep installed and activated on both sites.
I hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any other questions for us!