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  Laravel Backup
=================

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  Requirements
- [ 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
-----------------------

- [ 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
------------------------------------

- [ 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)

      You are viewing the documentation for **an older version** of this package. You can check the version you are using with the following command:

 `                                    composer show spatie/laravel-backup                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    `

Requirements
============

The backup package requires **PHP 5.5.9 or higher** and **Laravel 5.1.20 or higher**. Though it might work on Windows hosts, we're not supporting that platform.

The package needs free disk space to operate. Make sure that you have at least as much free space as the total size of the files you want to backup.

Make sure `mysqldump` is installed on your system if you want to backup MySQL-databases.

Make sure `pg_dump` is installed on your system if you want to backup PostgreSQL-databases.

To send notifications to Slack you'll need to install Maknz's Slack package:

```
composer require maknz/slack
```

 A good
match?
-------------

### What we do best

- All things Laravel
- Custom frontend components
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- AI-powered features
- Simplifying things
- Clean solutions
- Integrating services

### Not our cup of tea

- WordPress themes
- Cutting corners
- Free mockups to win a job
- "Just execute the briefing"

 In short: we'd like to be a **substantial part** of your project.

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