Begin by installing this package through Composer.

You can run:

composer require paulvl/mysql

Or edit your project's composer.json file to require paulvl/json-api.

    "require-dev": {
        "paulvl/mysql": "^1.0"
    }

Next, update Composer from the Terminal:

composer update --dev

Once the package's installation completes, the final step is to add the service provider. Open config/app.php, and add a new item to the providers array:

PaulVL\Mysql\BackupServiceProvider::class,

Finally publish package's configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish

Then the file config/backup.php will be created.

That's it! You're all set to go. Run the artisan command from the Terminal to see the new json-api commands.

php artisan

To make a backup of you current aplicationa database you have to run:

php artisan mysql:dump

This will create an .sql file on your configured path like /this/is/my/path/20150101201505.sql, this file is named using current datetime. If you want a custom name run:

php artisan mysql:dump example

This will create an .sql file on your configured path like /this/is/my/path/example.sql

To restore a backup to your current aplicationa database you have to run:

php artisan mysql:restore filename

This will restore the filename.sql file stored on your configured.

If you need to perform a backup for example, every day at midnight, at this like to yor schedule function on app/Console/Commands/Kernel.php:

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
...
	$schedule->command('mysql:dump')->dailyAt('13:00');
...
}

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