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Asked: 2026-06-17T08:27:10+00:00

I have a local psql database dump that needs to be uploaded to heroku.

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I have a local psql database dump that needs to be uploaded to heroku. I followed the steps in the Update section from this link. Everything worked fine until the last part, the actual uploading step:

heroku pgbackups:restore –app myAppName DATABASE
‘https://www.dropbox.com/myAppPSQLDumpLink/myAppName_local.dump‘ –confirm myAppName

This was what was showing up in the console:

HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_SILVER_URL (DATABASE_URL)  <---restore---  myAppName_local.dump

Retrieving... done

 !    An error occurred and your restore did not finish.

And this was the error from the logs (courtesy of Toby Hede’s question):

2013-01-09T15:39:09+00:00 app[pgbackups]: Invalid dump format: /tmp/GgUz5yU4bF/project_mgr_development_local.dump: HTML document text

I tried searching for this error, but could not find an answer. Does anyone know what needs to be done to solve the problem? The actual dump for my local psql database was performed this way:

pg_dump -Fc --no-acl --no-owner -U myUserName  > myAppName_local.dump

Thank you!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like the link to the dump on Dropbox is redirecting or pointing to an HTML page (HTML document text in the error). Visit the link and make sure you are directly getting the dump. Or download the dump in your browser, right-click on it and Copy Download Link. That link should work with pgbackups:restore.

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