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Creating a source

The collection of files on a remote server that you wish to backup is represented by a Source.

A Source is an Eloquent model. It can be created like this.

Destinations\BackupServer\Models\Source::create($attributes)

These attributes can be set

name (required): the name of the host, you can name it anything you'd like
host (required): the hostname of the server you wish to backup
ssh_user: the user name to use to ssh into the source server
ssh_port: the port to use when connecting to the source server
ssh_private_key_file: the path to a ssh key file to use when connecting to the source server
destination_id: the id of the destination you wish to backup to
backup_hour: the hour on which the backup-server:dispatch-backups should create a backup for this source
includes: an array of paths you wish to backup. These can be relative to the home directory of the ssh user, or absolute
excludes: an array of paths you wish to exclude from the backup. These should be relative to the paths giving in includes
pre_backup_commands: an array of commands that should be executed on the source server prior to backing up. You could use this to dump the database to the filesystem.
post_backup_commands: an array of commands that should be executed on the source server after the backup is complete. You could use this to clean databases that have been dumped to the filesystem.

The other attributes on the destination are used for monitoring health and clean up of backups.