At work, we’ve recently switched from Engine Yard AppCloud to Heroku. One of the things we’ve been missing is daily database dumps. Heroku does provide you with an addon called PG Backups. The basic free version will retain 2 postgres backups, which you have to kick off manually. There’s a gem created by @ddollar (now maintained by @joemsak) called heroku_backup_task. The heroku_backup_task gem ad