Question

I need to know the most efficient way to move our production database into our staging env?

Using AWS RDS. I have tried searching and have had no luck find a way to use an existing RDS snapshot to replace our staging database. Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can take a mysql Dump from the RDS machine and push it to the Staging machine

mysqldump -P port_no -h RDS_IP -u mysql_user -ppassword database_name