Backup your Laravel 5 App to Dropbox

June 25, 2016February 25, 2017 Tim How To, Laravel

Want a free way to backup your laravel app and database to dropbox? This guide should help!

Packages used

spatie/laravel-backup – Backups your filesystem and database to any Laravel file system
thephpleague/flysystem-dropbox – Adds dropbox as a laravel file system

Step 1

Follow the steps to install spatie/laravel-backup and thephpleague/flysystem-dropbox

Step 2

Create a file name DropboxFilesystemServiceProvider.php in app/Providers/. Then add App\Providers\DropboxFilesystemServiceProvider::class to your providers in config/app.php

Below is a copy of my DropboxFilesystemServiceProvider.php. Take a look at $config[‘accessToken’] and $config[‘appSecret’]. You’ll get these when you create a dropbox app. You can set these values in your .env file.

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Storage;
use League\Flysystem\Filesystem;
use Dropbox\Client as DropboxClient;
use League\Flysystem\Dropbox\DropboxAdapter;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class DropboxFilesystemServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function boot()
    {
        Storage::extend('dropbox', function ($app, $config) {
            $client = new DropboxClient($config['accessToken'], $config['appSecret']);

            return new Filesystem(new DropboxAdapter($client));
        });
    }

    public function register()
    {
        //
    }
}

Step 3

Create a Dropbox API App

Make sure you generate an access token. Save the access token and app secret in your .env file. Generating an access token will create a folder Apps in your Dropbox folder. This is where your backups will be saved.

Step 4

Edit config/laravel-backup.php and set ‘disks’ => [‘dropbox’] for destination and monitorBackups. If you do not have a laravel-backup.php file in your config folder, run php artisan vendor:publish –provider=”Spatie\Backup\BackupServiceProvider”

Step 5

Add a dropbox filesystem to config/filesystems.php

'dropbox' => [
 'driver' => 'dropbox',
 'accessToken' => env('DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN'),
 'appSecret' => env('DROPBOX_APP_SECRET'),
 ]

Step 6

Edit kernel.php in app Console/. This will run your backup and cleanup old backups. You can define how many backups you save in config/laravel-backup.php.

// app/Console/Kernel.php

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
 $schedule->command('backup:clean')->daily()->at('01:00');
 $schedule->command('backup:run')->daily()->at('02:00');
}

Step 7

Setup scheduler to run your backup. You can do this from a cron job or if you’re using Forge, you can set it up there. More documentation here.

That’s It!

These same steps can be used to backup your app to several other cloud services. To use other FileSystems, check out Flysystem.

Hope these steps help you setup your own Laravel backup. Please leave a comment below if you have any issues.

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51 thoughts to “Backup your Laravel 5 App to Dropbox”

Lac says:

August 8, 2015 at 2:53 am

It doesn’t seem to work for me. My scheduler log on Forge only returns:

Start backing up
Database dumped
Start zipping 1 files…
Zip created!
Start uploading backup to dropbox-filesystem…

[BadMethodCallException]
Call to undefined method League\Flysystem\Filesystem::createDropboxDriver

Any ideas? I followed the instructions precisely.

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1. Lac says:
  
  August 8, 2015 at 3:19 am
  
  Just figured it out. Forgot to add this too the ‘providers’ in config/app.php:
  
  ‘YourApp\Providers\DropboxFilesystemServiceProvider’
  
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  1. Tim says:
    
    August 8, 2015 at 6:49 am
    
    That’s good. So it’s working?
    
    Reply
    1. Lac says:
      
      August 8, 2015 at 9:45 am
      
      Yepp 🙂
      
      Reply
Karel says:

August 24, 2015 at 10:58 am

Hi Tim

I followed all the steps, but got this when trying to update :
$ php artisan backup:run PHP Warning: The use statement with non-compound name 'Auth' has no effect in /var/www/app/app/Http/helpers.php on line 4 Start backing up Database dumped Determining which files should be backed up... Start zipping 375 files... Zip created! Start uploading backup to dropbox-filesystem...
[BadMethodCallException] Call to undefined method League\Flysystem\Filesystem::createDriver

Backup to local filesystem works, using the dropbox filesystem also works.

This is in my composer.json :
... "graham-campbell/flysystem": "*", "spatie/laravel-backup": "^2.5", "league/flysystem-dropbox": "^1.0"

and in config/app.php :
... 'Spatie\Backup\BackupServiceProvider', 'GrahamCampbell\Flysystem\FlysystemServiceProvider', 'App\Providers\DropboxFilesystemServiceProvider',

all other files were updated/created following your instructions.

Any ideas would be much appreciated !

Karel

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1. Tim says:
  
  August 24, 2015 at 9:53 pm
  
  Hey Karel,
  
  What does your helpers.php file look like?
  
  Reply
Karel says:

August 25, 2015 at 4:21 am

hi Tim, thanks for replying. My helpers.php contains some functions to help build forms. There was a useless “use Auth;” at line 4, which I removed, so the artisan’s warning is gone.

When I run php artiusan backup:run, this shows up in the log file :
[2015-08-25 10:15:49] local.ERROR: exception 'BadMethodCallException' with message 'Call to undefined method League\Flysystem\Filesystem::createDriver' in /var/www/app/vendor/league/flysystem/src/Plugin/PluggableTrait.php:85 Stack trace: #0 [internal function]: League\Flysystem\Filesystem->__call('createDriver', Array) #1 [internal function]: League\Flysystem\Filesystem->createDriver(NULL) #2 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/FilesystemAdapter.php(347): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #3 [internal function]: Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemAdapter->__call('createDriver', Array) #4 [internal function]: Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemAdapter->createDriver(NULL) #5 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/FilesystemManager.php(251): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #6 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/FilesystemManager.php(100): Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemManager->__call('createDriver', Array) #7 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/FilesystemManager.php(100): Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemManager->createDriver(NULL) #8 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/FilesystemManager.php(83): Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemManager->resolve('dropbox') #9 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/FilesystemManager.php(72): Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemManager->get('dropbox') #10 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Facades/Facade.php(210): Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemManager->disk('dropbox') #11 /var/www/app/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Commands/BackupCommand.php(217): Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade::__callStatic('disk', Array) #12 /var/www/app/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Commands/BackupCommand.php(217): Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage::disk('dropbox') #13 /var/www/app/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Commands/BackupCommand.php(44): Spatie\Backup\Commands\BackupCommand->copyFileToFileSystem('/tmp/laravel-ba...', 'dropbox') #14 [internal function]: Spatie\Backup\Commands\BackupCommand->fire() #15 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(502): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #16 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php(150): Illuminate\Container\Container->call(Array) #17 /var/www/app/vendor/symfony/console/Command/Command.php(259): Illuminate\Console\Command->execute(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #18 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php(136): Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #19 /var/www/app/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(878): Illuminate\Console\Command->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #20 /var/www/app/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(195): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand(Object(Spatie\Backup\Commands\BackupCommand), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #21 /var/www/app/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(126): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #22 /var/www/app/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/Kernel.php(100): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #23 /var/www/app/artisan(36): Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #24 {main}

I started looking at the code mentioned in the log, but it didn’t make much sense to me 🙂

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1. Tim says:
  
  August 25, 2015 at 8:22 am
  
  Take a look at this. Try the things he recommends. https://github.com/spatie/laravel-backup/issues/41
  
  Reply
Karel says:

August 25, 2015 at 10:32 am

Thanks. Unfortunately, that didn’t work for me. I keep searching for a solution, any help would me more than welcome !

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1. Lac says:
  
  August 25, 2015 at 10:34 am
  
  Add this to ‘providers’ in config/app.php:
  
  ‘app\Providers\DropboxFilesystemServiceProvider’
  
  Reply
  1. Tim says:
    
    August 25, 2015 at 11:43 am
    
    Thanks Lac!
    
    Reply
2. Tim says:
  
  August 25, 2015 at 11:43 am
  
  Sorry did you try Lac advice?
  
  Reply
Karel says:

August 26, 2015 at 4:23 am

I solved it by removing backup and dropbox, then reinstalling. I guess it might have had something to with file permissions (but I don’t really know). My application was recently updated from 5.0 to 5.1..maybe that had something to do with it. Anyways, all is well now 🙂

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1. Tim says:
  
  August 26, 2015 at 9:07 am
  
  Thats good! Glad you figured it out.
  
  Reply
Michael says:

August 26, 2015 at 1:24 pm

Thanks for this guide, it helped me backing up my app!

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1. Tim says:
  
  August 26, 2015 at 2:12 pm
  
  No problem glad it helped!
  
  Reply
hstung says:

September 17, 2015 at 7:53 am

I got this error.
[BadMethodCallException]
Call to undefined method League\Flysystem\Filesystem::createDriver

is cause by previously this array in config/filesystem.php outter level.

The fix, this dropbox array should be inside “disk” array. Same level with other providers.
‘dropbox’ => [
‘driver’ => ‘dropbox’,
‘accessToken’ => env(‘DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN’),
‘appSecret’ => env(‘DROPBOX_APP_SECRET’),
],

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Ben says:

March 4, 2016 at 4:03 am

Thanks for the tuto !

Everything works but when I try a deploy on my Forge server I’ve this error

Generating autoload files
> php artisan clear-compiled
[Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError]
Fatal error: Class ‘App\Providers\DropboxFilesystemServiceProvider’ not found

Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error

[RuntimeException]
Error Output:

Any idea why ?

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1. Tim says:
  
  March 7, 2016 at 8:49 am
  
  Glad it’s helped you! Did you forget to add it to your providers? Look at step 2 of the tutorial.
  
  Reply
Erse says:

May 13, 2016 at 9:19 am

On Forge getting:
[Symfony\Component\Console\Exception\CommandNotFoundException]
There are no commands defined in the “backup” namespace.
Anybody knows solution?

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1. Tim says:
  
  May 13, 2016 at 1:04 pm
  
  Try php artisan backup:run
  
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  1. Erse says:
    
    May 15, 2016 at 9:17 am
    
    On php artisan there is no command backup:run on list
    
    Reply
  2. Erse says:
    
    May 15, 2016 at 9:29 am
    
    Dumb mistake, forgotten provider. When added works fine, thanks!
    
    Reply
    1. Tim says:
      
      May 15, 2016 at 10:03 am
      
      No problem! Glad you got it.
      
      Reply
Dost Shah says:

May 14, 2016 at 4:31 pm

First of thanks for such a nice tutorial… Its of great help.

I tried to follow your instructions and am good to go. I can now run artisan commands and get the backups done and copied to local as well as dropbox.

At the time being I am using Dropbox_Token that is generated for a user that I have kept in .env file.

My goal is to provide a feature in my app where admin can allow access to his dropbox and then the laravel app would keep storing the backups in his dropbox. I would like to show if there is any dropbox account linked and the ability to change it and link another (one at a time only). Thanks in advance

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1. Tim says:
  
  May 14, 2016 at 8:38 pm
  
  Glad it’s help you! It should be possible. Just store the Dropbox info in the database
  
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Trino Calma says:

May 27, 2016 at 10:57 am

Copying .zip file failed because: Could not connect to disk dropbox because: exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘The Dropbox SDK uses 64-bit integers, but it looks like we’re running on a version of PHP that doesn’t support 64-bit integers (PHP_INT_MAX=2147483647). Library: “/home/vagrant/projects/calmacons_master/vendor/dropbox/dropbox-sdk/lib/Dropbox/RequestUtil.php”‘ in /home/vagrant/projects/calmacons_master/vendor/dropbox/dropbox-sdk/lib/Dropbox/RequestUtil.php:22

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1. Tim says:
  
  May 27, 2016 at 6:13 pm
  
  Are you running it on a 32 bit is?
  
  Reply
2. Christian Tigre says:
  
  October 31, 2016 at 8:17 am
  
  Helpme.
  
  c:\xampp\htdocs\repositoriotesis\tesis\tienla>php artisan backup:run –only-db
  Starting backup…
  Dumping database store…
  Determining files to backup…
  Zipped 1 files…
  Copying 2016-10-31-120441.zip (size: 33.27 KB) to disk named dropbox…
  Copying .zip file failed because: The Dropbox SDK uses 64-bit integers, but it l
  ooks like we’re running on a version of PHP that doesn’t support 64-bit integers
  (PHP_INT_MAX=2147483647). Library: “C:\xampp\htdocs\repositoriotesis\tesis\tie
  nla\vendor\dropbox\dropbox-sdk\lib\Dropbox\RequestUtil.php”.
  Laravel-backup notifier failed because stream_socket_enable_crypto(): SSL operat
  ion failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages:
  error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify faile
  d
  
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  1. Tim says:
    
    November 10, 2016 at 4:31 pm
    
    Have you tried upgrading your version of php?
    
    Reply
Walker says:

December 20, 2016 at 9:47 am

Thanks for the tutorial!

I am getting a HTTP status 401.

I created the APP in dropbox and got the key and secret. I set them as ENV variables.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank You

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1. Tim says:
  
  December 20, 2016 at 10:21 am
  
  Thanks! Can you share any more of the errors?
  
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  1. Walker says:
    
    December 20, 2016 at 10:25 am
    
    Sure thing, this is what I got from Spatie:
    
    Important: An error occurred while backing up `My Application`
    
    Exception message: `HTTP status 401 {“error”: “Invalid OAuth2 token.”}`
    
    Exception trace: `#0 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/dropbox/dropbox-sdk/lib/Dropbox/Client.php(789): Dropbox\RequestUtil::unexpectedStatus(Object(Dropbox\HttpResponse)) #1 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/dropbox/dropbox-sdk/lib/Dropbox/Client.php(745): Dropbox\Client->_getMetadata(‘/http—localho…’, Array) #2 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/league/flysystem-dropbox/src/DropboxAdapter.php(194): Dropbox\Client->getMetadata(‘/http—localho…’) #3 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/league/flysystem-dropbox/src/DropboxAdapter.php(48): League\Flysystem\Dropbox\DropboxAdapter->getMetadata(‘http—localhos…’) #4 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/league/flysystem/src/Filesystem.php(56): League\Flysystem\Dropbox\DropboxAdapter->has(‘http—localhos…’) #5 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/league/flysystem/src/Filesystem.php(400): League\Flysystem\Filesystem->has(‘http—localhos…’) #6 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/league/flysystem/src/Filesystem.php(81): League\Flysystem\Filesystem->assertAbsent(‘http—localhos…’) #7 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/BackupDestination/BackupDestination.php(82): League\Flysystem\Filesystem->writeStream(‘http—localhos…’, Resource id #10351) #8 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Tasks/Backup/BackupJob.php(212): Spatie\Backup\BackupDestination\BackupDestination->write(‘/Users/wkinne/S…’) #9 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Collection.php(228): Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\BackupJob->Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\{closure}(Object(Spatie\Backup\BackupDestination\BackupDestination), 0) #10 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Tasks/Backup/BackupJob.php(222): Illuminate\Support\Collection->each(Object(Closure)) #11 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Tasks/Backup/BackupJob.php(121): Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\BackupJob->copyToBackupDestinations(‘/Users/wkinne/S…’) #12 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Commands/BackupCommand.php(43): Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\BackupJob->run() #13 [internal function]: Spatie\Backup\Commands\BackupCommand->handle() #14 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(508): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #15 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php(169): Illuminate\Container\Container->call(Array) #16 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/symfony/console/Command/Command.php(254): Illuminate\Console\Command->execute(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #17 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php(155): Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #18 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Commands/BaseCommand.php(22): Illuminate\Console\Command->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #19 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(820): Spatie\Backup\Commands\BaseCommand->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #20 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(187): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand(Object(Spatie\Backup\Commands\BackupCommand), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #21 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(118): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #22 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/Kernel.php(121): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #23 /Users/wkinne/Sites/trade-force-hub/artisan(35): Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput)) #24 {main}`
    
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    1. Walker says:
      
      December 20, 2016 at 12:32 pm
      
      I found the issue, had the token. My fault!
      
      Thanks for the quick reply!
      
      Reply
      1. Tim says:
        
        December 20, 2016 at 1:19 pm
        
        Great!
      2. Quan says:
        
        December 24, 2016 at 4:31 am
        
        i have the same issue, where you fixed? thanks!
      3. Walker Kinne says:
        
        December 26, 2016 at 1:37 pm
        
        I had to generate an Oauth Token and put that in my .env file for the app secret.
        
        Give that a shot!
Raheel says:

January 14, 2017 at 4:32 am

Class ‘League\Flysystem\AdapterInterface\Controller’ not found

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1. Tim says:
  
  January 15, 2017 at 7:57 am
  
  Make sure you installed flysystrm https://github.com/thephpleague/flysystem-dropbox
  
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nguyen van duong says:

February 13, 2017 at 12:55 am

that is great, thank you

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1. Tim says:
  
  February 13, 2017 at 1:20 am
  
  Thanks!
  
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yum says:

March 28, 2017 at 2:02 pm

i get this error when try ..
Exception_InvalidAccessToken in RequestUtil.php line 251:
HTTP status 401
{“error”: “Invalid OAuth2 token.”}

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1. Tim says:
  
  March 29, 2017 at 10:30 am
  
  Did you add the auth token to your .env file?
  
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Radim says:

April 17, 2017 at 11:17 am

Hi, very ice tutorial but I can not get it working. When I try to run “php artisan backup:run –only-db” I get error: Copying zip failed because: There is no disk set for the backup destination. The only disk set in laravel-backup.php is dropbox.
Any idea what is wrong? Thank you.

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1. Tim says:
  
  April 17, 2017 at 11:42 am
  
  Thanks! Make sure you have a backup destination set in your laravel-backup.php config. See the destination/Disk section.
  
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  1. Radim says:
    
    April 17, 2017 at 11:46 am
    
    this is how it looks:
    ——
    ‘destination’ => [
    ‘filename_prefix’ => ”,
    ‘disks’ => [ ‘dropbox’],
    ],
    ——
    
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    1. Radim says:
      
      April 17, 2017 at 12:05 pm
      
      Here is complete terminal output:
      Starting backup…
      Dumping database devshed…
      Determining files to backup…
      Zipping 1 files…
      Created zip containing 1 files. Size is 2.14 KB
      Copying zip to disk named dropbox…
      Copying zip failed because: There is no disk set for the backup destination.
      Backup completed!
      
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      1. Suresh says:
        
        May 3, 2017 at 6:38 am
        
        I am getting same as @Radim, Someone help please
usama says:

May 23, 2018 at 1:22 am

There are no commands defined in the “backup” namespace.

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Marcos says:

December 8, 2018 at 10:26 pm

hi, I try :
php artisan backup:run

Backup failed because The dump process failed with exitcode 127 : Command not found : sh: mysqldump: command not found
.
#0 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/spatie/db-dumper/src/DbDumper.php(246): Spatie\DbDumper\Exceptions\DumpFailed::processDidNotEndSuccessfully(Object(Symfony\Component\Process\Process))
#1 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/spatie/db-dumper/src/Databases/MySql.php(142): Spatie\DbDumper\DbDumper->checkIfDumpWasSuccessFul(Object(Symfony\Component\Process\Process), ‘/Users/marcospo…’)
#2 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Tasks/Backup/BackupJob.php(246): Spatie\DbDumper\Databases\MySql->dumpToFile(‘/Users/marcospo…’)
#3 [internal function]: Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\BackupJob->Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\{closure}(Object(Spatie\DbDumper\Databases\MySql), ‘mysql’)
#4 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Collection.php(1007): array_map(Object(Closure), Array, Array)
#5 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Tasks/Backup/BackupJob.php(249): Illuminate\Support\Collection->map(Object(Closure))
#6 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Tasks/Backup/BackupJob.php(166): Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\BackupJob->dumpDatabases()
#7 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Tasks/Backup/BackupJob.php(142): Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\BackupJob->createBackupManifest()
#8 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Commands/BackupCommand.php(52): Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\BackupJob->run()
#9 [internal function]: Spatie\Backup\Commands\BackupCommand->handle()
#10 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php(29): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#11 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php(87): Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::Illuminate\Container\{closure}()
#12 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php(31): Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::callBoundMethod(Object(Illuminate\Foundation\Application), Array, Object(Closure))
#13 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(572): Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::call(Object(Illuminate\Foundation\Application), Array, Array, NULL)
#14 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php(183): Illuminate\Container\Container->call(Array)
#15 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/symfony/console/Command/Command.php(255): Illuminate\Console\Command->execute(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Illuminate\Console\OutputStyle))
#16 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php(170): Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Illuminate\Console\OutputStyle))
#17 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Commands/BaseCommand.php(16): Illuminate\Console\Command->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#18 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(901): Spatie\Backup\Commands\BaseCommand->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#19 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(262): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand(Object(Spatie\Backup\Commands\BackupCommand), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#20 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(145): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#21 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Application.php(89): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#22 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/Kernel.php(122): Illuminate\Console\Application->run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#23 /Users/marcosportillogarcia/sitios/atenea/artisan(37): Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel->handle(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
#24 {main}
Backup failed because: The dump process failed with exitcode 127 : Command not found : sh: mysqldump: command not found
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1. Tim says:
  
  December 12, 2018 at 9:15 pm
  
  Do you have mysql installed?
  
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