What's the best way to migrate a Django DB from SQLite to MySQL?

Question

I need to migrate my db from sqlite to mysql, and the various tools/scripts out there are too many for me to easily spot the safest and most elegant solution.

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Answer 1

After some hard searching I got several problems that I hope future answer looking people will find useful.

my formula is

1. python manage.py dumpdata > datadump.json
2. Change settings.py to your mysql
3. Make sure you can connect on your mysql (permissions,etc)
4. python manage.py migrate --run-syncdb

5. Exclude contentype data with this snippet in shell

   python manage.py shell

   from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType ContentType.objects.all().delete() quit()

6. python manage.py loaddata datadump.json

Hope that will help you!