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Can someone please clarify the drop tables functionality in the restore script. I have a live server and a test server. I have just restored live to test and on checking there are still tables existing on the test server after restore, I was expecting all tables with the prefix jos_ to have been dropped.

I'm trying to create a mirror of the live server on the test. I can then introduce new functionality to the test server and if okay backup and restore to the live.

However it appears that the drop tables function is not deleting tables in the test server that do not exist on the live. Obviously I can delete these manually but that could lead to errors if you get it wrong.

What is the functionality of the drop tables in the restore script?

Can someone confirm

Regards
Paul

You are correct. Only the tables that are being restored are dropped from the target database. If a table is not being restored, it is not touched.