Hey, that's great info, I didn't know there was a dropbox gem!
Carl
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Andy Shipman <a...@cllearview.com> wrote:
> That is very cool. I adapted it slightly to download to Dropbox instead -
> using the dropbox gem - and now I get a backup locally as well as in the
> cloud.
>
> I removed the S3 lines and used the following instead: (obviously adding
> the DROPBOX ENV vars to Heroku first)
>
> d = DropBox.new(ENV["DROPBOX_USER"], ENV["DROPBOX_PWD"])
> d.create("tmp/#{name}", "/#{ENV["APP_NAME"]}/cron_backup/")
>
> Thanks for the inspiration to finally sort out backing up my app properly!
>
> Andy
>
> On 15 Apr 2010, at 05:52, Trevor Turk 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!
>
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