https://github.com/gma/heroku-postgres-backup

"Off site" backup of your PostgreSQL database snapshots
https://github.com/gma/heroku-postgres-backup

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"Off site" backup of your PostgreSQL database snapshots

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gma/heroku-postgres-backup
• Owner: gma
• Created: 2012-11-27T16:09:25.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-12-05T21:29:03.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-04-10T08:57:30.298Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 113 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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heroku-postgres-backup

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This script has been written to regularly download and verify backup

copies of PostgreSQL databases that are running on Heroku.

It doesn't replace Heroku's pgbackups functionality; it simply downloads

your database backups from Heroku and stores them on your own disk.

What's the point?

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1. **Flexibility and Control.** Heroku runs in the cloud. Cloud services

   shouldn't go offline at any point, but (through no fault of their

   own) Heroku has been known to go offline for considerable periods of

   time. Wouldn't it be nice to know that you've got the option to

   restore your business's or customers' database on different hardware?

2. **Verification.** If you're not verifying that you can restore from

   your backups, you're not really backing your data up. These scripts

   won't just keep a local stash of your recent Heroku database

   backups, they'll also verify that they're not corrupt. (TODO)

Setting up PostgreSQL backups on Heroku

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You can find out everything you need to know about how to setup backups

on Heroku in their [PG Backups][] docs.

[PG Backups]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pgbackups