grabbing db backups and restoring - restarone/violet_rails GitHub Wiki
Grabbing a db dump
pg_dump --no-acl --no-privileges --clean --create --no-owner --host=ec2-3-83-199-128.compute-1.amazonaws.com -p 5432 --username=violet_staging_ubuntu --encoding=UTF-8 --file=restarone-solutions-staging.backup --format=c --dbname=violet_staging
copying the dump to the docker container
docker cp restarone-solutions-staging.backup solutions_db:/var/shared
open a shell in the database container
docker-compose exec solutions_db sh
Restoring to local
pg_restore --clean --no-acl --no-owner --format=c --jobs=8 -U postgres -d r_solutions_development var/shared/restarone-solutions-staging.backup