About Proper Database Restoring

While you are restoring a database from a database dump in production or staging environments, temporarily stop the webserver, cron jobs, and background tasks. Otherwise, some visits or code execution in parallel can trigger Model.objects.get_or_create() methods, and you will get unexpected duplicates in the database.

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