How to migrate Django models from mysql to sqlite (or between any two database systems)?

Question

I have a Django deployment in production that uses MySQL.

I would like to do further development with SQLite, so I would like to import my existing data to an SQLite dat

Answer 1

use

manage.py dumpdata > your_file.json

to export your data from the production system (docs).

Then move the file on the development system and run

manage.py loaddata your_file.json

You can also put the file in your_app/fixtures folder with name "initial_data.json" and it will be automatically loaded when you run "manage.py syncdb" (docs).