Best practices for pulling site offline for editing and restoring to live site.

I’m hoping to get some guidance on this to make sure I’m not doing something that could cause issues down the road.

I’ve put a couple of sites together as a hobby over the past year. However, I’ve just finished one that is multisite, more involved, and will require updates and additions from time to time as we build it out. Currently, I’m using the All In One Import (with multisite) to create backups as well as export the site offline for editing in WP Local, then exporting out of WP Local to import back into the AWS live site.

Should I handle this differently? It’s working so far, but this is outside my area of expertise, so I’m looking for some guidance. I’ve also considered using WP Migrate to pull/push the site instead of the AIO Multisite option. I’m also considering Duplicator as it provides backups to S3 and OneDrive included. Something that AIO charges extra for each year.

If anyone would mind sharing their expreience/suggestions, I’d appreciate it.

When the site was done in WP Local, I set up a new AWS multisite instance, but unfortunately at the time, I was running into errors setting the domain name. I kept getting error messages in the terminal, so I used AIO to upload the site onto the original AWS demo site overriding the old demo we had running. It worked fine, though old plugins that we were no longer using were still installed from the demo site. I deleted them, and it works fine. Should I go back and put the site on a clean multisite site or is overwritting the old site no big deal?

When the site was done in WP Local, I set up a new AWS multisite instance, but unfortunately at the time, I was running into errors setting the domain name. I kept getting error messages in the terminal, so I used AIO to upload the site onto the original AWS demo site, overriding the old demo we had running. It worked fine, though old plugins that we were no longer using were still installed from the demo site. I deleted them, and it works fine. Should I go back and put the site on a clean multisite site, or is overwriting the old site no big deal?

Long post, I know, but thank you for reading and any suggestions. I appreciate it.