To see the database backup retained limit see the steps followed below:
1. Login into heroku.
2.Now click the database you are using. As you can see in the below screenshot database name is Heroku Postgres – Charcoal and it is Hobby Basic and it is purchased with $9.00:
![](/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/he1.png)
3. Click on Add-ons:
![](/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/he2.png)
4. Now click on “Heroku Postgres”:
![](/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/he3.png)
5. As you can see on the second row in first column our database Plan name is “Hobby Basic”, click on this:
![](/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/he4.png)
6. After clicking on this, scroll down and here you can see that you can retain only 5 PGBackups. After creating 5 backups, you have to delete one backup of the database:
![](/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/he5.png)
For retaining more PG database backups, you have to delete any backup. You can delete very first PG backup.