Gem to backup your database on Heroku.com to S3.

1. Add the heroku_s3_backup gem to your .gems file for Heroku

2. Add this to your config/production.rb

   config.gem 'jstorimer-heroku_s3_back', :lib => 'heroku_s3_backup'
   

3. Add your S3 config to Heroku

   heroku config:add s3_access_key_id=YOUR_ID s3_secret_access_key=YOUR_KEY

4. Run the HerokuS3Backup.backup method from your console or a cronjob

   task :cron => :environment do
     HerokuS3Backup.backup
   end
   

The blog post at almosteffortless.com/2010/04/14/automated-heroku-backups/ has some more detailed instructions.

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Code stolen from Trevor Turk (almosteffortless.com/2010/04/14/automated-heroku-backups/) and packaged by Eric Davis, modified by Jesse Storimer.

Copyright © 2010 Eric Davis. See LICENSE for details.