I threw this together to help out a bit automating your PGbackups.

https://github.com/ddollar/heroku_backup_task

On Nov 16, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Andrew C. 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
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