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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
