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Backup Heroku Postgres database and restore to local database
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Grab new backup of database

Command: heroku pgbackups:capture --remote production

Response: >>> HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR_URL (DATABASE_URL) ----backup---> a712

Get url of backup download

Command: heroku pgbackups:url [db_key] --remote production

Example: heroku pgbackups:url a712 --remote production

>>> "https://s3.amazonaws.com/hkpgbackups/app11111118@heroku.com/a712.dump?AWSAccessKeyId=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX&Expires=1367876175&Signature=XXXXXXX%EEEEEEEYWWWWWWW%3D"

Download backup dump file

Command: curl "http://[url]" > production.dump

Example: curl "https://s3.amazonaws.com/hkpgbackups/app11111118@heroku.com/a712.dump?AWSAccessKeyId=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX&Expires=1367876175&Signature=XXXXXXX%EEEEEEEYWWWWWWW%3D" > production.dump

Restore backup dump into local db

Command: pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -d [db_name] production.dump

Copy production to staging

heroku pg:copy yourapp::HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK_URL HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_WHITE_URL -a yourapp-staging

Find out database urls:

heroku pg:info -a yourapp-staging

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