Stop Django background-task from deleting completed_task model

Question

On django-background-tasks==1.1.11 (Django==2.2, Python 3.6.9), I have this problem where everytime I run python manage.py migrate, the table background_task_completedtask gets deleted. This breaks my background tasks. So far I have found a way to reverse it, as it is a separate migration from the initial one, meaning I can just python manage.py migrate background_task 0001_initial to restore it, but this does mean it will still be removed next migration. Any ideas for a more permanent solution?

Answer 1

Found a (somewhat hacky) permanent solution myself: By faking migrations (python manage.py migrate --fake (or python manage.py migrate appname --fake)), you make django think the migration has been executed without actually executing it. By doing this with the migration that was bothering me, I managed to get everything working again.