Grant privileges on future tables in PostgreSQL?

I am running PostgreSQL 9.3.1. I have test database and backup user which is used to backup the database. I have no problems with granting privileges to all current tables, but I have to grant privileges each time the new table is added to schema.

createdb test

psql test
test=# create table foo();
CREATE TABLE
test=# grant all on all tables in schema public to backup;
GRANT
test=# create table bar();
CREATE TABLE

psql -U backup test
test=> select * from foo;
test=> select * from bar;
ERROR:  permission denied for relation bar

Is it possible to grant access to tables which will be created in future without making user owner of the table?

It looks like the solution is to alter default privileges for backup user:

alter default privileges in schema public grant all on tables to backup;
alter default privileges in schema public grant all on sequences to backup;

From the comment by Matt Schaffer:

As caveat, the default only applies to the user that executed the alter statement. This confused me since I was driving most of my permissions statements from the postgres user but creating tables from an app user. In short, you might need something like this depending on your setup:

ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR USER webapp IN SCHEMA public GRANT SELECT ON SEQUENCES TO backup;
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR USER webapp IN SCHEMA public GRANT SELECT ON TABLES TO backup;