Restoring a database problem

I have had to do this so rarely and it has almost always been in a bit
of a panic so may well be missing something really obvious.

What I want to know is how to quiese a database to that I can restore it.

I need to close all existing connections and the prevent
people/processes from connecting again until the restore has completed.

Currently I have been logging into a bunch of servers and stopping
various daemons, then on the database server killing processes until the
database is apparently idle then dropping the database and doing the
restore. Then restarting the daemons etc. I am sure I am not doing this
the right way so advice gratefully received.

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