Backup Heroku PostgreSQL to AWS S3 Bucket [Step by Step Tutorial]

27-Jun-2019 2569
Heroku offers a robust backups system for it’s Postgres database plugin. Unfortunately, you can irreversibly lose all your data and backups just by typing a single command. It might seem improbable, but still, I would rather not bet my startup’s existence on a single faulty bash line. In this tutorial, I will describe how to set up a proprietary redundant Heroku PostgreSQL backups system to a secure AWS S3 bucket.I will be covering various tools including AWS CLI, OpenSSL, GPG, Heroku buildpacks, and scheduler but you don’t need to be familiar with any of those. By following this guide, you will set up a reliable, custom backups system for Heroku PostgreSQL database even if you don’t have much dev ops experience up your sleeve.Let’s get started!.
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