# Suggestions for duplicating production DB to staging?

**URL:** <https://community.convox.com/t/suggestions-for-duplicating-production-db-to-staging/769>\
**Category:** Configuration\
**Created:** [August 11, 2020, 4:45am UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/suggestions-for-duplicating-production-db-to-staging/769 "2020-08-11T04:45:50Z")\
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Are there any recommended ways to add a `timer` task that can replicate a database from `production` to a `staging` app?

We’re using AWS RDS Postgres and a version 3 rack.

We have an existing `bash` script I can refactor, but it’s quite long, and it seems to me this is a really common use-case.

I’d be really interested to hear how other people are achieving this.

Thanks in advance.