Pineco.de: Scheduling MySQL Backups with Laravel

On Pineco.de they've posted a new tutorial showing you how to create a MySQL database backup system using Laravel and a command-line call to mysqldump wrapped in an Artisan command.

A few days ago, I signed in to the wrong database and deleted around 18 000 records that were in use. Not to mention, we had no backup for that data. So after all, I decided to make a little script to dump the database and save it to an SQL file automatically.

But, if you are here for a fully working backup system, you should take a look at <a href="https://github.com/spatie/laravel-backup>this package. We won’t cover more just scheduling database exports and its scheduling.

The post starts with the command that will be executed on the command-line and the code required to "warm up" the console and run the command. He shares the code for this command and walks through it, explaining each part. Next comes the scheduling of the task and, as a bonus, setting up the scheduler to run on the Forge service.