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- [ Introduction ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/introduction)
- [ Postcardware ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/postcardware)
- [ Requirements ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/requirements)
- [ High level overview ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/high-level-overview)
- [ Installation and setup ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/installation-and-setup)
- [ Questions & issues ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/questions-and-issues)
- [ Changelog ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/changelog)
- [ About us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/about-us)

Taking Backups
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- [ Taking backups ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/taking-backups/overview)
- [ Events ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/taking-backups/events)

Cleaning up old backups
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- [ Cleaning up old backups ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/cleaning-up-old-backups/overview)
- [ Events ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/cleaning-up-old-backups/events)

Monitoring the health of all backups
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- [ Monitoring the health of all backups ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/monitoring-the-health-of-all-backups/overview)
- [ Events ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/monitoring-the-health-of-all-backups/events)

Sending notifications
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- [ Sending notifications ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/sending-notifications/overview)
- [ Creating a custom sender ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/sending-notifications/creating-a-custom-sender)

Advanced Usage
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- [ Adding Extra Files to the zip ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/advanced-usage/adding-extra-files-to-the-zip)
- [ Backing up a non-laravel application ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v3/advanced-usage/backing-up-a-non-laravel-application)

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This **Laravel 5** package creates a backup of your application. The backup is a zipfile that contains all files in the directories you specify along with a dump of your database. The backup can be stored on [any of the filesystems](http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/filesystem) you have configured in Laravel 5.

Feeling paranoid about backups? Don't be! You can backup your application to multiple filesystems at once.

Once installed, making a backup of your files and databases is very easy. Just issue this artisan command:

```
php artisan backup:run
```

In addition to making the backup the package can also clean up old backups, monitor the health of the backups, and show an overview of all backups.

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