README

Full, Incremental & Differential Backups for Laravel — includes multi-database support, scheduling, cloud upload, and restore-from-cloud.

Installation

1. Copy this package into your project's vendor/ folder (e.g. vendor/gokulsingh/laravel-incremental-backup) OR add it as a path repository in your main composer.json:

"repositories": [
  {
    "type": "path",
    "url": "vendor/gokulsingh/laravel-incremental-backup"
  }
]

1. Require it via composer:

composer require gokulsingh/laravel-incremental-backup:dev-main

1. Publish config and run migrations:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Gokulsingh\\IncrementalBackup\\IncrementalBackupServiceProvider"
php artisan migrate

1. Configure .env:

BACKUP_DISK=local
BACKUP_PATH=backups
BACKUP_CLOUD_ENABLED=true
BACKUP_CLOUD_DISK=s3
BACKUP_CLOUD_PATH=cloud_backups

# Optional: schedule defaults
BACKUP_SCHEDULE_ENABLED=true
BACKUP_SCHEDULE_FREQUENCY=daily
BACKUP_SCHEDULE_TYPE=full
BACKUP_SCHEDULE_CONNECTION=mysql
BACKUP_SCHEDULE_DBNAME=null

Usage

Run a full backup

php artisan backup:run --type=full --connection=mysql

Run an incremental backup (mysql binlog required)

php artisan backup:run --type=incremental --connection=mysql

Run a differential backup (since last full)

php artisan backup:run --type=differential --connection=mysql

Override database name

php artisan backup:run --type=full --connection=mysql --dbname=customer_db

List backups

php artisan backup:list

Restore a backup by ID

php artisan backup:restore 1 --connection=mysql --dbname=customer_db

Notes & Requirements

• MySQL binary logging must be enabled for incremental backups: Add to my.cnf:

  [mysqld]
  server-id=1
  log-bin=mysql-bin
  binlog_format=ROW
  

  Restart MySQL after changes.

• Differential backups in this MVP use updated_at filtering where possible. This is a heuristic; for robust differential backups consider triggers, change tables, or CDC.

• Cloud upload uses Laravel filesystem disks. Configure S3/Dropbox/etc in config/filesystems.php and set BACKUP_CLOUD_DISK accordingly.

• The package uses system commands (mysqldump, mysql, mysqlbinlog, gzip, gunzip). Ensure they are available in PATH or override the commands in config/incremental-backup.php.

Roadmap

• Improve binlog delta handling (store exact positions, incremental chains)
• Add optional encryption
• Add backup retention & cleanup
• Add UI dashboard & manual restore from UI
• Add notifications (Slack, email)

License

MIT