How do I transfer production database to staging on Heroku using pgbackups? Getting error

Question

On Heroku, I am trying to copy the production database into my staging app using the pgbackups addon. I followed the instructions on the addon page: https://devcenter.heroku.com

Answer 1

First create an up to date backup of production:

heroku pgbackups:capture -a productionappslug --expire

Find out what colour Heroku has named your database.

https://postgres.heroku.com/databases or https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/STAGINGAPPSLUG/resources

Then load the production db backup into staging (changing RED to whatever colour yours is):

heroku pgbackups:restore HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_RED -a stagingappslug `heroku pgbackups:url -a productionappslug`

stagingappslug and liveappslug are whatever shortnames your heroku apps are called.