Elefant 0.0.5

elefant
---

Allows you to backup and restore your Heroku database using your own private storage in S3. This allow circumventing the backup limit in Heroku plans and also gives peace of mind that your data is backed up somewhere else besides Heroku.

Tested only on Unix machines and Heroku Postgres 9.4.

## Installation

```bash
$ pip install elefant
```

Elefant's only dependency is `boto`.

## Usage

Steps:

* Ensure AWS credentials are set up in environment variables for `boto`
* Ensure heroku is logged in with $ heroku login

Elefant will create an S3 bucket for you so long as it is not taken and your AWS user has the permissions to do so.

## Example

```python
from elefant import Elefant


# create Elefant object, passing in the Heroku app name
hb = Elefant("myapp", "muybucket")

print "Making and backup and uploading to S3..."
hb.backup()

print "Availiable backups:"
backups = hb.backups
for b in backups:
print b.name

print "Restoring from most recent backup..."
hb.restore(b)

print "Restoring from most recent backup using a string..."
hb.restore(b.name)
```