This package provides Artisan commands to quickly dump and load databases in a Laravel application.

# Create a dump
php artisan snapshot:create my-first-dump

# Make some changes to your db
# ...

# Create another dump
php artisan snapshot:create my-second-dump

# Load up the first dump
php artisan snapshot:load my-first-dump

# List all snapshots
php artisan snapshot:list

This package supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.

You can install the package via Composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-db-snapshots

In Laravel 5.5 and above, the package will autoregister the service provider. For Laravel 5.4 or below you must install this service provider to config/app.php:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Spatie\DbSnapshots\DbSnapshotsServiceProvider::class,
];

And finally you should add a disk named snapshots to app/config/filesystems.php on which the snapshots will be saved. This would be a typical configuration:

// ...
'disks' => [
    // ...
    'snapshots' => [
        'driver' => 'local',
        'root' => database_path('snapshots'),
    ],
// ...    

Optionally, you may publish the configuration file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\DbSnapshots\DbSnapshotsServiceProvider" --tag="config"

This is the content of the published file:

return [

    /**
     * The name of the disk on which the snapshots are stored.
     */
    'disk' => 'snapshots',

    /**
     * The connection to be used to create snapshots. Set this to null
     * to use the default configured in `config/databases.php`
     */
    'default_connection' => null,

    /**
     * The directory where temporary files will be stored.
     */
    'temporary_directory_path' => storage_path('app/laravel-db-snapshots/temp'),
];

To create a snapshot (which is just a dump from the database) run:

php artisan snapshot:create my-first-dump

Giving your snapshot a name is optional. If you don't pass a name the current date time will be used:

# Creates a snapshot named something like `2017-03-17 14:31`
php artisan snapshot:create

After you've made some changes to the database you can create another snapshot:

php artisan snapshot:create my-second-dump

To load a previous dump issue this command:

php artisan snapshot:load my-first-dump

To load a previous dump to another DB connection:

php artisan snapshot:load my-first-dump --connection=connectionName

To list all the dumps run:

php artisan snapshot:list

A dump can be deleted with:

php artisan snapshot:delete my-first-dump

There are several events fired which can be used to perform some logic of your own:

• Spatie\DbSnapshots\Events\CreatingSnapshot: will be fired before a snapshot is created
• Spatie\DbSnapshots\Events\CreatedSnapshot: will be fired after a snapshot has been created
• Spatie\DbSnapshots\Events\LoadingSnapshot: will be fired before a snapshot is loaded
• Spatie\DbSnapshots\Events\LoadedSnapshot: will be fired after a snapshot has been loaded
• Spatie\DbSnapshots\Events\DeletingSnapshot: will be fired before a snapshot is deleted
• Spatie\DbSnapshots\Events\DeletedSnapshot: will be fired after a snapshot has been deleted

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

composer test

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

If you discover any security related issues, please email [email protected] instead of using the issue tracker.

You're free to use this package (it's MIT-licensed), but if it makes it to your production environment we highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using.

Our address is: Spatie, Samberstraat 69D, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium.

We publish all received postcards on our company website.

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