Lost Keychain files - can I replace from Clone?

Greetings,
In my inexperience in dealing with the KeyChain Access application, I accidentally erased all of my keychain items. I would like to restore them.
I have a bootable clone that is recent, but is several days old so I don't want to restore the whole drive from the clone if I can avoid it. Can I simply copy some files from my cloned drive over to my primary drive to replace the data that I obliterated?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Tom

Sure thing, that's what the backup is for. Just go to your backup and drag 'n drop the keychain into your Keychains folder, say yes to replace the vacant one with the populated one.
Francine
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