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Hi @ale.pixel, recommended method.

1. Set live site to maintenance
2. backup all files (except var/cache/*)
3. backup database
4. Remove maintenance to live site
5. Edit sql backup file and change all prod.domain.ext to staging.domain.ext
6. idem in .htaccess file
7. import database
8. change app/config/parameters.php to your staging sql server
9. go to staging backoffice and change payment modules to test
10. disable analytics like Google analytics to avoid staging to be indexing
11. change robots.txt is not enough, just a recommendation 😞 I suggest you to protect with a .htpasswd
12. Check for specific modules that communicate with external services like Brevo, Boxtal... if they have to be active in staging

Hi @ale.pixel, recommended method.

1. Set live site to maintenance
2. backup all files (except var/cache/*)
3. backup database
4. Remove maintenance to live site
5. Edit sql backup file and change all prod.domain.ext to staging.domain.ext
6. idem in .htaccess file
7. import database
8. change app/config/parameters.php to your staging sql server
9. go to staging backoffice and change payment modules to test
10. disable analytics like Google analytics to avoid staging to be indexing
11. change robots.txt is not enough, just a recommendation 😞 I suggest you to protect with a .htpasswd