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Heroku PGBackups add-ons: Why choose anything but the free one month retention option?

Asked 2012-03-29T16:19:34.377
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I'm looking into database backup options for our Heroku rails app, and it looks like the free PGBackups add-ons would work well.

However, I'm confused by the options. They are:

Basic - 2 manual back-ups
Plus - 7 manual back-ups
Auto One Week - 7 automatic daily and 2 manual
Auto One Month - 7 automatic daily, 5 automatic weekly, 10 manual

They're all free. I must be missing something here because I don't see why you'd choose any but the last option. Is there a downside that I'm missing? What are the pros and cons I'm supposed to be weighing here?

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If you have a dev or basic plan for Heroku Postgres, you cannot choose the auto- options. That's the point.

answered 2013-06-21T14:04:55.343

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