Heroku transfer db from one app to another

Question

I need to transfer db from app_1 to app_2

I created backup on app_1

Then ran:

heroku pg:backups restore HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR --app app_2 heroku

Answer 1

I had a related issue. You can save a backup to your local machine, then upload it to some hosting, like amazon s3, and import from given url. This question and following answer may help you: Can't import to heroku postgres database from dump