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Secure Offsite Postgres Backup To Your Server or OursRemora Backup securely automates the backup of your Heroku Postgres data for off-AWS backup and automated data workflows.

Enable Automated Workflows

Using our Bring Your Own Storage plan, you are able to securely send the daily backup of your Postgres database to any server supporting SSH at the time you specify.

An Offsite Copy of Your Data

Your data gets backed up daily to either your own server (supporting transfer via SSH) or our secure hosting partner off of AWS.

Your Private Data Kept Private

We utilize a Helper App within your Heroku Private or Shield Space (or within your account on the Common Runtime) that you control. Your Helper App transmits your backup data directly to your server or our secure storage partner so your data never flows through our add-on.

End to End Encryption

Every step of transmission of your data – from your Remora Helper App reading the data from your Postgres DB to its transmission to your server via SSH or our secure data center – is encrypted.

Enterprise-Ready Backup

Remora Backup was designed with Heroku Private Spaces and Heroku Shield Spaces in mind. Our use of a backup Helper App allows for secure automated daily backups of your Postgres data – even in a Shield Space.

Compliant Storage Options

We offer non-AWS storage options through a secure storage partner that is HIPAA, PCI and SSAE16/SAS70 compliant.

Your Backup under Your ControlOur unique helper app solution keeps you in control of your data.

We utilize a Helper App within your Heroku Private or Shield Space (or within your account on the Common Runtime) that you control. Your Helper App transmits your backup data directly to your server or our secure storage partner so your data never flows through our add-on.

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Automate Data WorkflowsUse Remora Backup to automate data migration to local development or failover systems.

Daily snapshots

Remora Backup transmits an encrypted backup of your data every 24 hours.

Your server

Remora Backup can securely backup your Heroku Postgres database to any server supporting SSH.

Scripted restore

Automate the restoration of each backup using standard Postgres tools such as pg_restore.

Compliant Off-AWS Storage AvailableWe offer secure, compliant offsite storage via rsync.net, a leader in cloud storage since 2001.

Since 2001, rsync.net has been providing secure cloud storage built on open UNIX standards. Today, the rsync.net cloud storage platform is built on the ZFS filesystem – the state of the art in resiliency and data integrity.

If you choose to use rsync.net for your offsite Remora backups, each backup will be stored via immutable snapshots, which can be configured for the custom retention schedules your business needs.

If you require a backup for restoration via physical media, that can be arranged too.

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When we signed up for a Heroku Shield Postgres database, we were surprised to learn it didn’t include automated offsite backups.  Remora Backup allowed us to securely automate our daily backup of our Heroku Shield database without having to roll our own solution.

Jason Cross, CTO Advice2Pay

I was looking for an easy way to keep our UAT testing application relatively in sync with live data from our production site.  Remora Backup made this process easy by transferring a nightly archive of our database to the test server, which is then restored automatically.

Brian Headlee, Owner Sutibo Software

Featured Blog Posts

June 16, 2020 in Announcements

Provide Your Own Encryption Key

Remora Backup is pleased to announce the availability of a new feature that allows our customers to provide their own encryption key for their backups. Remora Backup launched two years ago as a managed, encrypted, offsite backup service for your Heroku Postgres databases. As part of this managed service, we provide and maintain the encryption…

June 1, 2019 in How-To

Bring Your Own Storage

Today we are excited to announce a new plan available the Remora Backup add-on: Bring Your Own Storage. As the name indicates, Bring Your Own Storage (BYO), is a plan that allows you to specify a server you control that will store the encrypted Remora Offsite Backup file. The requirements are simple. First, you will…

February 12, 2019 in Background

Why Remora Backup?

We created Remora Backup to answer a question we kept encountering on our own Heroku projects: How do we reliably and securely store an offsite backup of our Postgres data? We love Heroku. We’ve built many projects and businesses over the last 10+ years that run on and rely on Heroku. We also understand that…