diff --git a/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/bodhi.yml b/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/bodhi.yml
index d966f9a96c..5cb33ff6c4 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/bodhi.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/staging-sync/bodhi.yml
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
   - command: createdb -O bodhi2 bodhi2
   - name: Import the prod db.
     shell: cat /var/tmp/bodhi2.dump | psql bodhi2
+  - file: dest=/var/tmp/bodhi2.dump state=absent
 
 - name: bring staging services up (httpd)
   hosts: bodhi2-stg