The PostgreSQL instance in Heroku is automatically backed up to S3. Though that backup is not accessible to end users, only Heroku staff. If you want your own regular S3 accessible backup you need to use the Bundles Add-On.
Jared On Apr 15, 10:04 am, Neil Middleton <[email protected]> wrote: > Side note - do people generally worry about backing up S3? > > For instance, this week in the 37signals podcast they talked about having > 55Tb stored on S3 - which I assume is not being backed up. > Is S3 considered one of those things that are probably reliable enough to > not worry about (i.e. you assume Amazon have that covered) > > N > > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jared Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another option is to create a daily cronjob that backs up your > > database on Herkou. > > As for your code, the popular way to do this at the moment is to push > > your local Git repo to a site such as GitHub or CodaBaseApp. This > > ensures that your entire repo is backed up to a remote source. > > > Jared > > > On Apr 15, 4:26 am, johnb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I usewww.backupmyapp.com-pretty neat service, files + database. > > > > On Apr 15, 5:52 am, Trevor Turk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm not too thrilled with the current backup options Heroku is > > > > offering, but I had to do something. So, I wrote up an article that > > > > shows how I'm enabling automatic nightly PostgreSQL database backups > > > > from Heroku to Amazon S3. > > > > >http://almosteffortless.com/2010/04/14/automated-heroku-backups/ > > > > > Feedback is more than welcome. Thanks! > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Heroku" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<heroku%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
