Laravel Backup

If you’re a developer using Laravel I’d strongly recommend “Laravel Backup”, a package developed by the folks over at Spatie. Version 3 just got released: Laraval Backup can backup the files and databases of your application to one or more external filesystems. It uses Laravel’s native cloud filesystem to do this. The package can also …

Backup local MySQL Databases

Nice script by Xavez. Put it in a daily cronjob if you like, or extend it to copy the backup to another machine: #!/bin/bash # Path to where you want to backup mysql databases. opath=/Users/username/Sites/Backups/mysql/ # Local mysql details. Make a username with only read access. Allow SELECT, LOCK TABLES. mysqlhost=127.0.0.1 username=read_only_user password=read_only_password # Get …

Drobo, my experience so far.

This post is outdated. Not everything is accurate anymore. More than three years later I still have my Drobo running and have performed disk swaps without any problems. Drobo has grown up by now. One remaining issue though is the speed (although that should be better with the newer models): it’s not optimal. A few …