Backing up with Laravel (unicorn)

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1. Backing up 
 with 
 Laravel
2. About me Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at Spatie @freekmurze https://murze.be
3. About me phpantwerp.be Dries Vints @driesvints Frederick Vanbrabant @TheEdonian
4. Since 2003 https://spatie.be Websites, applications and webshops Team 4 developers, 1 manager Specialization Laravel development
5. OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
6. Open source software We use a lot of it Nginx, Laravel, Ubuntu, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, Beanstalkd, MySQL, Composer, Glide, Valet, Flysystem, Fractal, Carbon, PHPUnit, NPM, React, Vue, Java, SSH, Sequel Pro, BackupPC … Basically everything listed in composer.json and package.json
7. ± 100 packages on Packagist Laravel, Framework agnostic PHP, JavaScript + 3 000 000 downloads in total, growing 350 000 a month We create a lot of it Open source software
8. http://github-awards.com/users?type=world&language=php Open source software
9. Learning Forced to write documentation and tests Showing the quality of our work Eat our own dogfood Attracting new clients Benefits Open source software
10. Fractalistic Uptime monitor Laravel Analytics Laravel permission Laravel Responsecache Open source software
11. Fractalistic $books = [
 ['id' => 1, 'title' => 'Hogfather', 'characters' => [...]],
 ['id' => 2, 'title' => 'Game Of Kill Everyone', 'characters' => [...]]
 ];
 
 $manager = new Manager();
 
 $resource = new Collection($books, new BookTransformer());
 
 $manager->parseIncludes('characters');
 
 $manager->createData($resource)->toArray();
12. Fractal::create()
 ->collection($books)
 ->transformWith(new BookTransformer())
 ->includeCharacters()
 ->toArray();
 Fractalistic
13. Uptime monitor
14. Retrieve data from Google Analytics Laravel Analytics Analytics::fetchMostVisitedPages(); Analytics::fetchVisitorsAndPageViews(); 
 Analytics::getTopReferrers();
15. Associate users with roles and permissions Laravel Permission $role = Role::create(['name' => 'writer']);
 $role->givePermissionTo('edit articles');
 $user->assignRole('writer');
 $user->can('edit articles’);
16. Speed up your application 
 by caching the entire response Laravel Responsecache RESPONSE CACHE REQUESTS APP 1 2
17. https://spatie.be/opensource/laravel
18. https://spatie.be/opensource/php
19. Not free!
20. POSTCARDWARE
21. Spatie
 Samberstraat 69D 2060 Antwerp
 Belgium
22. LET’S TALK BACKUPS
23. There is no 
 one size fits all solution for backups
24. Small sites Shared hosting Backups by hosting provider Did not do anything regarding backups ourselves Hosting Up until a few year ago
25. Bigger applications Learned basic server management through resources like serversforhackers.com Digital Ocean Forge / Ansible Hosting How we are currently doing it
26. HORROR STORIES
27. Horror Story #1 Earlier today, our Cloud Operations team was alerted to some performance issues affecting the physical server that hosts your droplet. … The damage was serious enough that this droplet was lost and not able to be restored. One fine morning I got this mail from Digital Ocean Full story: https://murze.be/2016/02/today-digitalocean-lost-our-entire-server/
28. Horror Story #2 This message is a follow-up to our previous emails. Despite the very best efforts of our engineering and datacenter operations teams, unfortunately the host machine that your cloud server resides on was not able to be recovered. At this point, there is complete data loss on the server. Horror can occur everywhere. A mail from Rackspace: Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3982571
29. Ok, I’ll just use
 the backup service 
 from my cloud provider
30. Horror Story #3
31. Horror Story #3
32. Relying on DO backups 
 is not enough! Only weekly snapshots Potentially a lot of data could get lost All the backups in the same datacenter If data center is down backups can’t be accessed or restored
33. SOLUTIONS
34. DIY: A bash script Hosted service: https://ottomatik.io/ Open source: BackupPC, Bacula Solutions Do not put your eggs in one basket
35. https://serversforhackers.com/video/backup-to-s3 interface Dumps the database with mysqldump Uploads dump + files using was cli tool to S3 Use cron to frequently run script Downside: no notifications when something goes wrong
 
 A bash script
36. Backups as a service Not free Easy to use interface Bring your own storage Ottomatik.io
37. Open source software Installed onto a control server SSH’s into servers to be backed up Uses hard links to save disk space Some system administration knowledge is required to setup up BackupPC SERVERS BackupPC SSH
38. LARAVEL BACKUP
39. Backup files and databases to one or more filesystems Cleanup old backups Sending notifications Easily installed into any Laravel application Laravel Backup
41. Backup files & databases FILES DATABASE SERVER S3 DROPBOX DB DUMP .ZIP .SQL
42. Backups use a lot of storage Artisan task to clean up old backups Fully configurable Will never delete the youngest backup Grandfather-father-son rotation scheme Cleanup old backups
43. Grandfather-father-son rotation scheme FEW TIMES A DAY DAILY (16) WEEKLY (8) MONTHLY (4) YEARLY(2) KEEP
 EVERYTHING KEEP DAILY BACKUPS KEEP WEEKLY BACKUPS KEEP MONTHLY BACKUPS KEEP YEARLY BACKUPS
44. Detects when no backups were made in a certain amount of days Detects if there is too much storage used Fully configurable Monitor backups
45. On (un)successful events (backup failed, youngest backup is too old, backup uses too much storage …) Fully configurable Mail, Slack, Telegram, Pushover, … https://github.com/laravel-notification-channels Sending notifications
46. DEMO
47. Your Laravel app may break Server may be down Install the package in a Laravel app on a separate server Monitor the backups of all your apps from there Monitoring best practices
48. Monitoring best practices APPS BACKUPS MONITOR
49. Install a Laravel app on the same server Point the configuration the the database/directories you which to backup Profit! Backing up a non Laravel app
50. Backup to multiple filesystems Get notified when something goes wrong Cleans up older backups Easy installation Cost: one postcard Benefits
51. Drawbacks Only use this for small to medium sized apps Can consume quite a bit a of disk space while backing up Application has credentials to access the backups No restore options
52. https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-backup
53. Version 4 PHP 7 / Laravel 5.3, 5.4 Laravel 5.3’s native notification capabilities Version 3: PHP 5.6 / Laravel 5.1, 5.2
 Custom notification system: Mail, Log, Slack, Pushover, Telegram Requirements
54. Do not rely solely on backups of your service provider Take care of backups yourself as well Many options available both free and paid Laravel Backup can help you out (cost: one postcard) Summary
55. Thank you! https://joind.in/talk/42b1d https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/backing-up-with-laravel-unicorn https://spatie.be/opensource https://murze.be https://murze.be/newsletter/
56. QUESTIONS?