On the surface, PGBackups provides a way to capture regular backups of your Heroku Postgres database. However, because of its general-purpose architecture and use of standard PostgreSQL utilities, it’s also a useful tool capable of exporting to or importing from external PostgreSQL databases. Export PGBackups uses the native pg_dump PostgreSQL tool to create its backup files, making it trivial to
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