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laravel-backup

Backup and restore database support for Laravel 4 applications

Installation

Add the following to your composer.json and run composer update

{
    "require": {
        "schickling/backup": "dev-master"
    }
}

Add Schickling\Backup\BackupServiceProvider to your config/app.php

Usage

Backup

Creates a dump file in app/storage/dumps

$ php artisan db:backup

Use specific database

$ php artisan db:backup --database=mysql

Upload to AWS S3

$ php artisan db:backup --upload-s3 your-bucket

Uses the aws/aws-sdk-php-laravel package which needs to be configured.

Restore

Paths are relative to the app/storage/dumps folder.

Restore a dump

$ php artisan db:restore dump.sql

List dumps

$ php artisan db:restore

Configuration

Since version 0.5.0 this package follows the recommended standard for configuration. In order to configure this package please run the following command:

$ php artisan config:publish schickling/backup

All settings are optional and have reasonable default values.

return array(

	// add a backup folder in the app/database/ or your dump folder
    'path' => app_path() . '/database/backup/',

    // add the path to the restore and backup command of mysql
    // this exemple is if your are using MAMP server on a mac
    // on windows: 'C:\\...\\mysql\\bin\\'
    // on linux: '/usr/bin/'
    // trailing slash is required
    'mysql' => array(
			'dump_command_path' => '/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/',
			'restore_command_path' => '/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/',
		),

    // s3 settings
    's3' => array(
        'path'  => 'your/s3/dump/folder'
        )
);