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Backing up with Laravel (unicorn)

Backing up with Laravel (unicorn)

Freek Van der Herten

May 04, 2017
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  1. About me Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at

    Spatie @freekmurze https://murze.be
  2. 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
  3. ± 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
  4. Learning Forced to write documentation and tests Showing the quality

    of our work Eat our own dogfood Attracting new clients Benefits Open source software
  5. 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();
  6. Associate users with roles and permissions Laravel Permission $role =

    Role::create(['name' => 'writer']);
 $role->givePermissionTo('edit articles');
 $user->assignRole('writer');
 $user->can('edit articles’);
  7. Speed up your application 
 by caching the entire response

    Laravel Responsecache RESPONSE CACHE REQUESTS APP 1 2
  8. Small sites Shared hosting Backups by hosting provider Did not

    do anything regarding backups ourselves Hosting Up until a few year ago
  9. Bigger applications Learned basic server management through resources like serversforhackers.com

    Digital Ocean Forge / Ansible Hosting How we are currently doing it
  10. 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/
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. DIY: A bash script Hosted service: https://ottomatik.io/ Open source: BackupPC,

    Bacula Solutions Do not put your eggs in one basket
  14. 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
  15. Backups as a service Not free Easy to use interface

    Bring your own storage Ottomatik.io
  16. 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
  17. Backup files and databases to one or more filesystems Cleanup

    old backups Sending notifications Easily installed into any Laravel application Laravel Backup
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. Detects when no backups were made in a certain amount

    of days Detects if there is too much storage used Fully configurable Monitor backups
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. Backup to multiple filesystems Get notified when something goes wrong

    Cleans up older backups Easy installation Cost: one postcard Benefits
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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