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  Laravel Backup Server
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- [ Introduction ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/introduction)
- [ Installation & setup ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/installation-setup)
- [ Requirements ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/requirements)
- [ Upgrading ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/upgrading)
- [ Questions and issues ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/questions-issues)
- [ Changelog ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/changelog)
- [ About us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/about-us)

Taking backups
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- [ Creating a destination ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/taking-backups/creating-a-destination)
- [ Creating a source ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/taking-backups/creating-a-source)
- [ Taking backups ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/taking-backups/taking-backups)
- [ The backup process ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/taking-backups/the-backup-process)
- [ Events ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/taking-backups/events)
- [ Listing sources and destinations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/taking-backups/listing-sources-and-destinations)
- [ Working with backups ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/taking-backups/working-with-backups)
- [ Creating database backups ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/taking-backups/creating-database-backups)

Cleaning up backups
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- [ The clean up process ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/cleaning-up-backups/the-cleanup-process)
- [ Determining old backups ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/cleaning-up-backups/determining-old-backups)
- [ Events ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/cleaning-up-backups/events)

Monitoring the health of all backups
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- [ The monitoring process ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/monitoring-the-health-of-all-backups/the-monitoring-process)
- [ Checking health of sources ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/monitoring-the-health-of-all-backups/checking-health-of-sources)
- [ Checking health of destinations ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/monitoring-the-health-of-all-backups/checking-health-of-destinations)
- [ Events ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/monitoring-the-health-of-all-backups/events)

Sending notifications
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- [ Sending notifications ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/sending-notifications/sending-notifications)
- [ Adding extra notification channels ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/sending-notifications/adding-extra-notification-channels)
- [ Customizing the notifiable ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/sending-notifications/customizing-the-notifiable)
- [ Pausing failed notifications ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup-server/v4/sending-notifications/pausing-notifications)

 Laravel Backup Server
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Store and manage backups securely on a dedicated server
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 Laravel Backup Servers builds on top of laravel-backup, allowing backups from multiple Laravel projects to be automatically sent to a server.

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Introduction
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This package backs up one or more servers that use either the `ext3` or `ext4` filesystem, which is the default file system for many \*nix distributions. When a backup contains files also present in a previous backup, deduplication using hard links will be performed. Even though you will see full backups in the filesystem, only changed files will take up disk space.

The package can also search for file names and content in backups, clean up old backups, and notify you when there were problems running the backups.

In this video you'll see a quick demonstration of the package.