That is brilliant and insane. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Andrew C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I spin up an EC2 instance from my cron job. The EC2 instance captures > and downloads the backup to S3, then shuts itself down. Works well so > far. Obviously, it's not free, but it's freaking cheap. > > On Nov 16, 10:24 am, Peter van Hardenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Trevor Turk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Are there plans to offer an automated solution? > > > > Definitely. > > > > > Is there a way to do this now? I've tried to put the Heroku gem into > > > my Gemfile and then execute the command from the console, but that > > > doesn't seem to work. I've been trying to think of other ways to run > > > the pgbackups with the cron addon, but I haven't come up with anything > > > yet. Any ideas would be most appreciated. > > > > Check out the --expire flag on pgbackups:capture. I'm not the expert on > the > > subject, but with a bit of work you can probably find a way to use the > > heroku gem from inside a heroku cron job. > > > > -pvh > > -- > 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.
