I figured out how to backup data from a strapi installation to another. Or in otherwords to clone a strapi installation including content types data and all. I have done a blog post that describes the process. It is here
[Strapi: Backing up data in a Strapi installation | by Arjun Singh Kochhar | May, 2022 | Medium](https://How to backup strapi data or clone a strapi install including data)