Solved by jpeg729 in post #2 
              
              
                If I had to deep copy a model, I would do something like this… 
model_copy = type(mymodel)() # get a new instance
model_copy.load_state_dict(mymodel.state_dict()) # copy weights and stuff

I can’t see how that would help you “save it somewhere else in a database”. I assume you have read the docs on …