Comments on: Poor Man’s Heroku Backups

By: Matt Buck

Matt Buck — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:28:51 +0000

Thanks! Yeah, I found that one recently, as well. I think I like his method better, actually. I adapted my plugin from a rake task, so it’s still shelling out to the heroku gem. I’m just using the bundle capture functionality rather than pg_dump direct from the dyno.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:41:16 +0000

@Matt – cool!

I also came across this one, which looks pretty good, too:

http://github.com/perezd/heroku_tools

By: Matt Buck

Matt Buck — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:25:54 +0000

I recently created a heroku plugin for the purpose of automating the uploading of bundles to S3: http://herocutter.heroku.com/plugins/17

By: Leo Wong

Leo Wong — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:55:24 +0000

Thanks for the helpful advices. It seems capturing a bundle is a more preferred way for backups. But I have a question: how to restore the raw dump file ‘pgdump.sql’, which is included in the downloaded bundle, to the database on Heroku?

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:19:32 +0000

That was easy. Thanks, Sam!

By: Sam Rodgers

Sam Rodgers — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:24:57 +0000

bundle=backup
app=myapp
heroku bundles:capture $bundle –app $app
sleep 15 # the capture takes a few seconds…
heroku bundles:download $bundle –app $app
heroku bundles:destroy $bundle –app $app

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:16:34 +0000

Yeah, that could be easier, but I couldn’t figure out how to automate the destroying of that single bundle to make room for the new one. If this isn’t a problem anymore, or you have a solution, please let me know!

By: Mooktakim

Mooktakim — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:50:07 +0000

You get 1 backup free.

$ heroku bundles:capture
$ heroku bundles:download

Keep it someplace