Backup Laravel Application with Database using Spatie Package
Hello Artisans, today we'll talk about how we can backup our database in our Laravel Application. Sometimes, we run into some situation where we need to backup our application/database. So, today's tutorial is based on about backup. We'll use a package called Spatie. Spatie is a very handful package which backups our all Laravel application directory and create a zip files of all directories in a minute. So, no more talk let's see how we can implement the backup system in our Laravel Application.
Note: Tested on Laravel 9.2.
Table of Contents
Install Spatie
For install spatie fire the below command in your terminal
composer require spatie/laravel-backupThe package will automatically register its service provider.
Publish the Configuration Files
Fire the below command in your terminal To publish the config file to config/backup.php. It'll hold all the configuration files.
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Backup\BackupServiceProvider"Take Backup of Laravel Application
Now we're done with our configuration, now it is time to backup our Laravel application. So, run the below command to backup of your Laravel application and database. But before start the backup process of your application please look at your .env file, if database and mail configuration is ok or not. And if you don't want to get notified via mail then you can comment out the mail option in your config/backup.php. Which will look like below after commenting the mail notification.
config/backup.php
<?php
return [
'backup' => [
/*
* The name of this application. You can use this name to monitor
* the backups.
*/
'name' => env('APP_NAME', 'laravel-backup'),
'source' => [
'files' => [
/*
* The list of directories and files that will be included in the backup.
*/
'include' => [
base_path(),
],
/*
* These directories and files will be excluded from the backup.
*
* Directories used by the backup process will automatically be excluded.
*/
'exclude' => [
base_path('vendor'),
base_path('node_modules'),
],
/*
* Determines if symlinks should be followed.
*/
'follow_links' => false,
/*
* Determines if it should avoid unreadable folders.
*/
'ignore_unreadable_directories' => false,
/*
* This path is used to make directories in resulting zip-file relative
* Set to `null` to include complete absolute path
* Example: base_path()
*/
'relative_path' => null,
],
/*
* The names of the connections to the databases that should be backed up
* MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Mongo databases are supported.
*
* The content of the database dump may be customized for each connection
* by adding a 'dump' key to the connection settings in config/database.php.
* E.g.
* 'mysql' => [
* ...
* 'dump' => [
* 'excludeTables' => [
* 'table_to_exclude_from_backup',
* 'another_table_to_exclude'
* ]
* ],
* ],
*
* If you are using only InnoDB tables on a MySQL server, you can
* also supply the useSingleTransaction option to avoid table locking.
*
* E.g.
* 'mysql' => [
* ...
* 'dump' => [
* 'useSingleTransaction' => true,
* ],
* ],
*
* For a complete list of available customization options, see https://github.com/spatie/db-dumper
*/
'databases' => [
'mysql',
],
],
/*
* The database dump can be compressed to decrease diskspace usage.
*
* Out of the box Laravel-backup supplies
* Spatie\DbDumper\Compressors\GzipCompressor::class.
*
* You can also create custom compressor. More info on that here:
* https://github.com/spatie/db-dumper#using-compression
*
* If you do not want any compressor at all, set it to null.
*/
'database_dump_compressor' => null,
/*
* The file extension used for the database dump files.
*
* If not specified, the file extension will be .archive for MongoDB and .sql for all other databases
* The file extension should be specified without a leading .
*/
'database_dump_file_extension' => '',
'destination' => [
/*
* The filename prefix used for the backup zip file.
*/
'filename_prefix' => '',
/*
* The disk names on which the backups will be stored.
*/
'disks' => [
'local',
],
],
/*
* The directory where the temporary files will be stored.
*/
'temporary_directory' => storage_path('app/backup-temp'),
/*
* The password to be used for archive encryption.
* Set to `null` to disable encryption.
*/
'password' => env('BACKUP_ARCHIVE_PASSWORD'),
/*
* The encryption algorithm to be used for archive encryption.
* You can set it to `null` or `false` to disable encryption.
*
* When set to 'default', we'll use ZipArchive::EM_AES_256 if it is
* available on your system.
*/
'encryption' => 'default',
],
/*
* You can get notified when specific events occur. Out of the box you can use 'mail' and 'slack'.
* For Slack you need to install laravel/slack-notification-channel.
*
* You can also use your own notification classes, just make sure the class is named after one of
* the `Spatie\Backup\Notifications\Notifications` classes.
*/
'notifications' => [
'notifications' => [
\Spatie\Backup\Notifications\Notifications\BackupHasFailedNotification::class => ['mail'],
\Spatie\Backup\Notifications\Notifications\UnhealthyBackupWasFoundNotification::class => ['mail'],
\Spatie\Backup\Notifications\Notifications\CleanupHasFailedNotification::class => ['mail'],
\Spatie\Backup\Notifications\Notifications\BackupWasSuccessfulNotification::class => ['mail'],
\Spatie\Backup\Notifications\Notifications\HealthyBackupWasFoundNotification::class => ['mail'],
\Spatie\Backup\Notifications\Notifications\CleanupWasSuccessfulNotification::class => ['mail'],
],
/*
* Here you can specify the notifiable to which the notifications should be sent. The default
* notifiable will use the variables specified in this config file.
*/
/*'notifiable' => \Spatie\Backup\Notifications\Notifiable::class,
'mail' => [
'to' => '[email protected]',
'from' => [
'address' => env('MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS', '[email protected]'),
'name' => env('MAIL_FROM_NAME', 'Example'),
],
],*/
'slack' => [
'webhook_url' => '',
/*
* If this is set to null the default channel of the webhook will be used.
*/
'channel' => null,
'username' => null,
'icon' => null,
],
'discord' => [
'webhook_url' => '',
'username' => null,
'avatar_url' => null,
],
],
/*
* Here you can specify which backups should be monitored.
* If a backup does not meet the specified requirements the
* UnHealthyBackupWasFound event will be fired.
*/
'monitor_backups' => [
[
'name' => env('APP_NAME', 'laravel-backup'),
'disks' => ['local'],
'health_checks' => [
\Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Monitor\HealthChecks\MaximumAgeInDays::class => 1,
\Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Monitor\HealthChecks\MaximumStorageInMegabytes::class => 5000,
],
],
/*
[
'name' => 'name of the second app',
'disks' => ['local', 's3'],
'health_checks' => [
\Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Monitor\HealthChecks\MaximumAgeInDays::class => 1,
\Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Monitor\HealthChecks\MaximumStorageInMegabytes::class => 5000,
],
],
*/
],
'cleanup' => [
/*
* The strategy that will be used to cleanup old backups. The default strategy
* will keep all backups for a certain amount of days. After that period only
* a daily backup will be kept. After that period only weekly backups will
* be kept and so on.
*
* No matter how you configure it the default strategy will never
* delete the newest backup.
*/
'strategy' => \Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Cleanup\Strategies\DefaultStrategy::class,
'default_strategy' => [
/*
* The number of days for which backups must be kept.
*/
'keep_all_backups_for_days' => 7,
/*
* The number of days for which daily backups must be kept.
*/
'keep_daily_backups_for_days' => 16,
/*
* The number of weeks for which one weekly backup must be kept.
*/
'keep_weekly_backups_for_weeks' => 8,
/*
* The number of months for which one monthly backup must be kept.
*/
'keep_monthly_backups_for_months' => 4,
/*
* The number of years for which one yearly backup must be kept.
*/
'keep_yearly_backups_for_years' => 2,
/*
* After cleaning up the backups remove the oldest backup until
* this amount of megabytes has been reached.
*/
'delete_oldest_backups_when_using_more_megabytes_than' => 5000,
],
],
];
Now, run the below commands in you terminal
php artisan optimize:clear
php artisan backup:run
Hola!!!! it'll backup your files and database into storage/app/Laravel.
Schedule Backup
Even you don't need to manually run the command again again. Just schedule these commands in your Kernel.php, so that it'll run after a specific time of period. Replace your kernel.php with the below codes.
app/Console/Kernel.php
<?php
namespace App\Console;
use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;
class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
{
/**
* Define the application's command schedule.
*
* @param \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule $schedule
* @return void
*/
protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
$schedule->command('backup:clean')->daily()->at('01:00');
$schedule->command('backup:run')->daily()->at('01:30');
}
/**
* Register the commands for the application.
*
* @return void
*/
protected function commands()
{
$this->load(__DIR__.'/Commands');
require base_path('routes/console.php');
}
}
That's it for today. Hope you'll enjoy through this tutorial. You can also also download this tutorial from GitHub. Thank's for reading.
