library larasafe

krato/larasafe

Larasafe: a simple way to make backup of your laravel app

Larasafe

An easy way to make backups of you laravel app., _(*1)

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Install

• You need to require this package as a composer dependency, so, run:, _(*4)

  composer require hernandes/larasafe:dev-master, _(*5)

• After it, register the package on the $providers array on app/config/app.php, _(*6)

  'providers' => array(
  
  'Illuminate\Foundation\Providers\ArtisanServiceProvider',
  'Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider',
  ...
  'Hernandes\Larasafe\LarasafeServiceProvider',
  ),
  

Configuration

• First thing we need to use it, is publish the package config files, do it running:, _(*7)

  php artisan config:publish hernandes/larasafe, _(*8)

• Now we have 3 files inside app/config/packages/hernandes/larasafe, _(*9)

  • database.php, _(*10)

    Where you need to setup your database connection to be used when backuping, you can also specify tables to ignore and aditional options to mysqldump command., _(*11)

  • files.php, _(*12)

    On files.php, you can choose what folders and files of your project need to be backed up, and some fine tune options, like what compression use., _(*13)

  • targets.php, _(*14)

    On targets.php, you will need to inform where you backups should be stored, supports local folders and remote servers, also, you can specify how much time backups should be preserved (rotation)., _(*15)

Usage

After all this work, just run, _(*16)

php artisan backup, _(*17)

and be happy!, _(*18)