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# [The Easiest Way to Clone a PostgreSQL Database](https://blog.redactics.com/the-easiest-way-to-clone-a-postgresql-database?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

If you use a managed database service like AWS RDS or Google Cloud SQL, it is super easy to create a snapshot and create a new instance based on this snapshot, but there is an even easier way to clone a database. At Redactics our use case was buildin...

Dec 6, 2022 · 1 min read · blog.redactics.com  
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On multiple occasions in my career I've been tasked with creating production data samples and setting up environments to use this data. Seeing a pattern here, and having spent a lot of time working on perfecting this, I built a business out of this (https://www.redactics.com) and later found my co-founders to take the original concept, generalize it, and extend the original concept into full-fledged data privacy product with its initial focus around bringing safe production data into test, development (local and cloud-based), and demo environments.

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