This Ruby script creates a new backup of your Heroku app's Postgres database and downloads it to your local computer.
Heroku's pg:backups tool provides a command line interface for managing your app's database backups. This script executes a series of commands that generates a new database backup and downloads it to your computer.
Here's an example of how to use it:
ruby heroku-pgbackups-downloader.rb myappname /Users/username/backups
The script will then download a database backup to a file called myappname - timestamp.dump in the supplied directory where timestamp is replaced with a timestamp indicating when the backup was created.
You can schedule this in a cron job to download periodic backups of your app's database.
If you have any suggestions or find a bug drop me a note at @mhmazur on Twitter or by email at matthew.h.mazur@gmail.com.
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