Syncing local and Elastic Beanstalk database?

I recently deployed a Django web app on Elastic Beanstalk. I have configured it so that I can access the Django admin interface online and add content to the online site.

Now, the site is still under development - I will be chopping and changing and making tweaks, etc. Unfortunately, every time I deploy my app from the local version, the database (SQLite) is overwritten and any content I added on the online version is deleted.

Is there a way to 'pull' the database (and the database alone) from the online site? Alternatively could I tell the 'deploy' command to ignore the database?

Thanks folks.