When doing development on Heroku using review apps, pipelines and all the other goodness it’s sometimes required to test against a clone of a production database. Doing that is pretty easy on Heroku when you know how even without moving the data down to your own laptop and then backup to Heroku. This is done by creating a backup, generating a public, secret, URL for the backup image and then restoring from that URL.
Below are the steps in the Heroku CLI to clone a database from an app called “my-production-app” to an app called “my-development-app”. Step no. 3 is to create a new Heroku Postgres addon attached to “my-development-app” that fits the same amount of data as the one from “my-production-app”.
$ heroku pg:backups:capture --app my-production-app Starting backup of postgresql-aerodynamic-55964… done Use Ctrl-C at any time to stop monitoring progress; the backup will continue running. Use heroku pg:backups:info to check progress. Stop a running backup with heroku pg:backups:cancel. Backing up DATABASE to b003… done $ heroku pg:backups:url --app my-production-app b003 https://xfrtu.s3.amazonaws.com/112d4cf2-xxxx-475b-xxxx-ac809400fa78… $ heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-basic --app my-development-app Creating heroku-postgresql:hobby-basic on ⬢ my-development-app… $9/month Database has been created and is available ! This database is empty. If upgrading, you can transfer ! data from another database with pg:copy Created postgresql-octagonal-31270 as HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_YELLOW_URL Use heroku addons:docs heroku-postgresql to view documentation $ heroku pg:backups:restore --app my-development-app https://xfrtu.s3.amazonaws.com/112d4cf2-xxxx-475b-xxxx-ac809400fa78… HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_YELLOW
Once restored you may promote the database you restored into using the “heroku pg:promote” command and / or delete the backup you created.
$ heroku pg:backup:delete --app my-production-app b003
▸ WARNING: Destructive Action
▸ This command will affect the app my-production-app
▸ To proceed, type my-production-app or re-run this command with --confirm
▸ my-production-app
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