Based off of https://github.com/schickling/laravel-backup with support for Laravel 5.0.
Update your composer.json file to include this package as a dependency
"iuriip/db-backup": "dev-master"Register the service provider by adding it to the providers array in the config/app.php file.
'providers' => array(
'IuriiP\LaravelDbBackup\DBBackupServiceProvider',
)Copy the config file into your project by running
php artisan vendor:publish
This will generate a config file like this
return [
// 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' => [
'dump_command_path' => '/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/',
'restore_command_path' => '/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/',
],
// s3 settings
's3' => [
'path' => 'your/s3/dump/folder'
]
// Use GZIP compression
'compress' => false,
];All settings are optional and have reasonable default values.
Creates a dump file in app/storage/dumps
$ php artisan db:backup$ php artisan db:backup --database=mysql$ php artisan db:backup --upload-s3 your-bucketYou can use the --keep-only-s3 option if you don't want to keep a local copy of the SQL dump.
Uses the aws/aws-sdk-php-laravel package which needs to be configured.
Paths are relative to the app/storage/dumps folder.
$ php artisan db:restore dump.sql$ php artisan db:restore --last-dump$ php artisan db:restore
$ php artisan db:dumps