NOTE!

Please use this package for Laravel 5 and up: https://github.com/backup-manager/laravel

Database dump Dropbox upload

Dropbox upload is a Laravel 4 package, which uploads a previously dumped database file to a Dropbox account. The database backup is made by the package schickling/backup. Thanks Johannes!

The big advantage of this package is that it doesn't ask you to enter any input, because uses a permanent token key, your uploads will happen in the background..

Usage

Generate a permanent token for the package

• Go to https://dropbox.com/developers/apps and generate api keys.

• Install Dropboxupload

  composer require bszalai/dropboxupload:dev-master

• Create a file keys.json and fill it with your keys

{  
   	"key" : "Dropbox app key",  
   	"secret": "Dropbox app secret"  
}    

• Copy this file into the Dropbox package's examples folder (vendor/dropbox/dropbox-sdk/examples).

• Open a terminal, go to the above folder and enter

  php authorize.php keys.json token.json

• Click on the url in the terminal, it'll open a browser window, Allow the app to access your folder, and copy the provided key (you have to log in to Dropbox if you aren't logged in)

• Go back to terminal, and paste the above key, and press Enter.

• You'll have a token.json file created.

• Copy this file into the app/storage folder. You are done.

Using the package

• Edit your app.php in the app/config folder, and add the following lines to the service providers

  Schickling\Backup\BackupServiceProvider,
  Bszalai\Dropboxupload\DropboxuploadServiceProvider

• Publish the package config file

  php artisan config:publish bszalai/dropboxupload

• Edit the config file (app/config/packages/bszalai/dropboxupload/config.php), you have several options

  • prefix - name-prefix of the source file

  • uploadfolder - where to upload the file

  • compress - if set to true, it'll create a zip file

  • encrypt - encrypt the source file, set the encryption key so you can decrypt your file later

• Create a CRON job for the Backup package

Example:

/usr/local/bin/php53 /path/to/your/app/artisan db:backup

• Create another CRON job for the Dropbox upload, set the run time after the backup surely finished

Example:

/usr/local/bin/php53 /path/to/your/app/artisan dropbox:upload

License

Dropboxbackup is under MIT License

Copyright

© 2014 Barna Szalai