How to use “db:transfer” as a heroku command by heroku-valkyrie?

Question

I tried to use heroku-valkyrie to transfer my local data to heroku databse. https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-valkyrie

I installed the plugin:

heroku plugins:install http://github.com/ddollar/heroku-valkyrie.git
Installing heroku-valkyrie... done

and wanted to transfer data:

heroku db:transfer sqlite://db/development.sqlite3 postgres://my-apps-database-url/

but received this error message:

 !    `db:transfer` is not a heroku command.
 !    See `heroku help` for a list of available commands.

How can I use db:transfer as a heroku command?

Answer 1

According to Heroku documentation, you will have to export your local database as a dump file by using the pg dump tool and import the file using command.,

heroku pgbackups:restore DATABASE ' https://s3.amazonaws.com/me/items/3H0q/mydb.dump '

Check for complete documentation here

Answer 2

Try running heroku plugins:install https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-pg-transfer first.

Then the command will be pg:transfer , not db:transfer .

However, you may run into issues since you're transferring from an sqlite database and this command only transfers from postgre.