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Backup Production Heroku Database to S3 #276

Backup Production Heroku Database to S3

Backup Production Heroku Database to S3 #276

Workflow file for this run

name: Backup Production Heroku Database to S3
# This workflow invokes a Heroku "logical" backup: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-logical-backups
#
# Backups are already done via Heroku continuous protection services: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-data-safety-and-continuous-protection
#
# The reason behind this workflow is 1. a further safeguard for backing up our data, 2. the ability to use Postgres anywhere potentially, not just Heroku in the long-term if desired
on:
workflow_dispatch: # Allows for manual trigger if ad-hoc is desired
schedule:
- cron: '0 5 * * *' # Runs at 5AM UTC every day -- which is also 12AM EST at MIT
jobs:
backup:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Install Heroku CLI
run: |
curl https://cli-assets.heroku.com/install.sh | sh
- name: Install AWS CLI (v2)
run: |
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install --update
aws --version # Check that AWS CLI is installed
- name: Install Specific Version of PostgreSQL Client
run: |
sudo apt-get -y install wget ca-certificates
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install postgresql-client-15
- name: Capture Backup
env:
HEROKU_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.HEROKU_API_KEY }}
run: |
DATABASE_URL=$(heroku config:get DATABASE_URL -a ${{ secrets.HEROKU_APP_NAME }})
# Parsing the DATABASE_URL to extract components
DB_USER=$(echo $DATABASE_URL | cut -d':' -f2 | sed 's|//||g')
DB_PASS=$(echo $DATABASE_URL | cut -d':' -f3 | cut -d'@' -f1)
DB_HOST=$(echo $DATABASE_URL | cut -d'@' -f2 | cut -d':' -f1)
DB_PORT=$(echo $DATABASE_URL | cut -d':' -f4 | cut -d'/' -f1)
DB_NAME=$(echo $DATABASE_URL | cut -d'/' -f4)
export PGPASSWORD=$DB_PASS
pg_dump -Fc --no-acl --no-owner -h $DB_HOST -U $DB_USER -d $DB_NAME -p $DB_PORT > db.dump
- name: Upload Backup to S3
run: |
aws s3 cp db.dump s3://${{ secrets.S3_BUCKET_NAME }}/$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S)_db.dump
env:
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-east-2