Autobus add-on is being removed from Heroku

Question

I just received an email from Autobus saying that due to " Salesforce's complete and long-term failure to fulfill its obligations to us we have to stop our service starting December 1, 2022. ".

That is very unfortunate as we don't really have an alternative add-on (Remora Offsite Backup starts at $75/month).

Does anyone know how to automatically backup Postgres database from Heroku automatically without Autobus help?

Answer 1

For now we have to setup scheduled backups using the Heroku CLI...

heroku pg:backups:schedule DATABASE_URL --at '20:00 America/Sao_Paulo'

More details at https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-backups