Backups are important at any level. Failures are possible to occur at any system that uses the database. It may be an accidental failure, data corruption, or hardware-related. You need to perform actions anticipating failures and take steps to ensure data integrity. Therefore, Heroku offers an add-on called PG Backups that allows you to create and restore backups of your Postgres database hosted on Heroku, and also to import and export data.
In this chapter, you will learn how to use the features that this add-on provides.
This chapter will cover the following topics:
Plans
Installing the add-on
Changing the plan
Creating a backup
Listing backups
Downloading a backup
Deleting backups
Restoring from a backup
Importing databases
Exporting databases
Removing the add-on