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

To transfer (copy) the production database (source database) to the staging database (target database) you will need to invoke pg:copy from the target application, referencing a source database.

heroku pg:copy source-application::OLIVE HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK -a target-application

Another example:

heroku pg:copy my-production-app::HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_OLIVE HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK --app my-staging-app

To obtain the colour names of your databases, use:

heroku pg --app my-production-app
heroku pg --app my-staging-app

See pg:copy