Disaster recovery in Heroku PostgreSQL
The easiest way to recover your data is to keep frequent backups. Heroku provides a very convenient mechanism to back up your data through the free pgbackups add-on. Use this add-on to create data backups on demand.
To create a backup, you need to first add the pgbackups add-on to your account. To do so, use the following command:
$ heroku addons:add pgbackups Adding pgbackups to test-db-app... done, v... (free) You can now use "pgbackups" to backup your databases or import an external backup. pgbackups documentation available at: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pgbackups
There are multiple options available in the form of backup plans that you could use based on your business needs. Your decision to ...
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