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Heroku database backups and copies to S3
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Suggestion: Use a long-lived authorization Heroku token instead? #22

Closed philgyford closed 5 years ago

philgyford commented 6 years ago

The current way of creating the HEROKU_API_KEY:

heroku config:add HEROKU_API_KEY=`heroku auth:token` -a my-database-backups

creates a token that quietly expires in one year. I just noticed my backups stopped running a month ago!

Is it worth adding to the README that you could do this instead, to create a long-lived authorization token:

heroku config:set HEROKU_API_KEY=`heroku authorizations:create -S -d my-database-backups` -a my-database-backups
kbaum commented 5 years ago

Sure. Happy to pull in something like that. I think it’s worth using something like dead mans snitch for your database backups.