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Copies the source app's Heroku Postgres data, if present. Won't that take a prohibitively long time for large apps?
by fleaflicker 13y ago
Copies the source app's Heroku Postgres data, if present.
Won't that take a prohibitively long time for large apps?
- Aqua_Geek 13y agoI have 7GB of data sitting in one of their Postgres instances right now. It only takes a couple minutes to backup and restore to a new db, so I guess it depends on how you'd define "prohibitively long."
- jmathai 13y agoAt least they give fair warning.. https://github.com/heroku/heroku/blob/master/lib/heroku/command/fork.rb#L105 https://github.com/heroku/heroku/blob/master/lib/heroku/comm...
- jfarmer 13y agoIt's remarkably fast. The network transfer is AWS-to-AWS if you do it right, so the only time is creating the backup and populating the new DB. It takes almost no time for a ~5GB database I'm using.