Some nice rake tasks for Heroku’s pgbackups¶ ↑

Allows you to do

$ rake pgbackup:seed       # capture pgbackup from production and load into development
$ rake pgbackup:to_staging # capture pgbackup from production and load into staging

Installation¶ ↑

1. Add pgbackup-tasks to gemfile

   gem 'pgbackup-tasks'
   

2. Bundle install

   $ bundle

3. Make sure you’re using postgres for development.

   # config/database.yml
   development:
     adapter: postgresql
     database: myapp_development
     ...

4. Make your heroku app’s remote names production and staging (as recommended in this heroku help article)

   # git/config
   [remote "production"]
     url = git@heroku.com:myapp.git
   
   [remote "staging"]
     url = git@heroku.com:myapp-staging.git

5. Make sure you have the pgbackup add-on installed for your heroku apps.

   $ heroku addons:add pgbackups --remote production
   $ heroku addons:add pgbackups --remote staging

6. Go for it!

   $ bundle exec rake pgbackup:seed

To Do¶ ↑

- add rails 2 support
- check to see that production and staging remotes are set (with nice warning)
- nice output (downloading, saving, restoring)
- hide "private" rake tasks
- silence pg_restore output
- figure out the best place to store backups