I am building a Flask app which I have deployed on Heroku. I recently added a Postgres database which I have been running locally and storing data in. I'm now ready to add the remote Postgres database to my Heroku site.
My question is what are the steps to transfer data from local to the remote Postgres database on Heroku?
Thank you in advance!
You just need to export your local database using pg_dump and import it on heroku using the PGBackups function.
A full explanation of the procces can be found on:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-import-export#import
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I have recently started working on an existing Heroku environment.
How can I tell if there are database backups scheduled?
Assuming you are using Heroku Postgres, you can view backup schedules with the following command:
heroku pg:backups:schedules
You might have to provide the --app argument so Heroku knows which app you're interested in.
Please I need your help.
I have a Django app that is running on heroku.
The Django app initially uses an sqlite3 database.
The local and the remote versions of the app worked fine.
I could access the sqlite3 database on my local machine. However, I have no idea, e.g. an interface, through which I could access the database version that is running on heroku.
Then, I changed the database to Postgresql.
The local version of the database worked fine with the application, as I could see the data being written into the local posgresql whenever I have a need to check the data in the database.
However, I need to be able to see how data is being written into the remote postgresql.
When I try to connect to the database on postgresql, I get an error as shown in the snapshot below.
Please, how can I connect to the database on heroku and see my database.
I am currently using a free heroku account. I hope that is also not a problem?
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I created app on openshift and added a cartridge postgresql.
There is no manage application like pgadmin supported by openshift.
I manage the DB by PuTTY under windows.
But how I can import the local data to the DB on openshift.
Thank you in advance!
First take backup of your database using below command.
pg_dump dbname > outfile
Then
add the postgresql database like so
rhc-ctl-app –a postgresApp –e add-postgresql-8.4
then access the remote psql and you can restore using this command pg_restore
My understanding is that Heroku Postgres runs on top of AWS. Is it possible to configure which datacenter your database is running in? I'm also wondering if the database files are stored on an encrypted filesystem.
Yes, Heroku runs on AWS. But you are not able to specify which datacenter to run your database. For encryption look at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/pgcrypto.html.
Heroku runs out of Amazon US-East - once you've add a postgres db to your app heroku config will give you the database connection URL which you would be able to tracert on to see where it is
I want to migrate my application from Heroku to my own ubuntu server. What is the correct syntax to do this using taps/heroku db:pull?
If you are moving data between a local and cloud database both of which are Postgres you should follow the instructions on Heroku's Devcenter:
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/migrating-data-between-plans
You would simply do heroku db:pull to pull the database from Heroku to your local db which you would then backup and restore to your own server. If it's a large database you might want to look into Heroku pgbackups as an alternative as it will provide you with a downloadable backup.
Note: If you want to migrate between databases, ie postgres => mysql then you would have to use the db:pull approach.