diff --git a/backend/djangoindia/settings/production.py b/backend/djangoindia/settings/production.py
index 7195dc0f..f49b1c34 100644
--- a/backend/djangoindia/settings/production.py
+++ b/backend/djangoindia/settings/production.py
@@ -37,8 +37,18 @@
     "staticfiles": {
         "BACKEND": "djangoindia.storage_utils.S3StaticStorage",
     },
+    "dbbackup": {
+        "BACKEND": "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage",
+        "OPTIONS": {
+            "access_key": os.environ.get("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"),
+            "secret_key": os.environ.get("AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"),
+            "bucket_name": os.environ.get("AWS_BACKUP_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME"),
+            "region_name": os.environ.get("AWS_S3_REGION_NAME"),
+            "default_acl": "private",
+            "location": os.environ.get("AWS_BACKUP_STORAGE_PATH"),
+        },
+    },
 }
-
 REST_FRAMEWORK.update(
     {
         "DEFAULT_THROTTLE_CLASSES": [
@@ -50,13 +60,3 @@
     }
 )
 
-DBBACKUP_STORAGE = "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage"
-
-DBBACKUP_STORAGE_OPTIONS = {
-    "access_key": os.environ.get("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID"),
-    "secret_key": os.environ.get("AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY"),
-    "bucket_name": os.environ.get("AWS_BACKUP_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME"),
-    "region_name": os.environ.get("AWS_S3_REGION_NAME"),
-    "default_acl": "private",
-    "location": os.environ.get("AWS_BACKUP_STORAGE_PATH"),
-}
diff --git a/backend/requirements/base.txt b/backend/requirements/base.txt
index 4cfe7f4c..212e6626 100644
--- a/backend/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements/base.txt
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ django-prose-editor==0.9.0
 django-prose-editor[sanitize]
 djangorestframework==3.14.0  # https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework
 djangorestframework-simplejwt==5.5.0
-setuptools>=70.0.0
-drf-spectacular
+
+drf-spectacular==0.27.2
 google-api-python-client==2.97.0
 google-auth==2.22.0
 Pillow==10.4.0
diff --git a/backend/requirements/production.txt b/backend/requirements/production.txt
index 4117485b..7269a590 100644
--- a/backend/requirements/production.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements/production.txt
@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
 -r base.txt
 
 boto3==1.28.40
-Collectfast==2.2.0  # https://github.com/antonagestam/collectfast
-django-dbbackup==4.2.1
-django-storages==1.14
-django-storages[boto3]
-gunicorn==20.1.0  # https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn
+# Collectfast removed due to incompatibility with modern setuptools
+django-dbbackup==5.2.0
+django-storages[boto3]==1.14
+gunicorn==23.0.0  # https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn
 whitenoise==6.5.0