# Laravel (MySQL) Backups

Backup a Laravel website, database (MySQL) and optionally the file system.

Backup one server, database, or application for free forever.

### Advantages over Self Backups

There are packages available for performing a backup of Laravel, they make use of laravel itself to create a backup from within, and while these do have use they can suffer from silent fails.

If for whatever reason the package breaks, it may not notify you can't create the backup

- No silent fails
- Centeralized management for all of your Laravel Applications

### Auto discover

Let our system help you get setup, file path discovery and real-time password gathering

- MySQL passwords extracted from Laravel at runtime
- Never let a password rotation break your backups

### Getting Started with Laravel Backups

Watch and follow along how you can quickly get started with Laravel backups.

### Server Based Laravel (MySQL) Backups

For customers who already have a server and want there **Application** data to stay within there own network, only meta sent back to SnapShooter.

1. SnapShooter Connects Via SSH to your server
2. Once Connected this server connects directly to your **Application** and begins the backup process
3. Data from **Application** begins streaming to your server
4. Your Server compresses the data and uploads it to your storage
5. Confirmation of uploaded chunk is received, repeat steps 3, 4, 5 until backup completed
6. During the backup meta data is periodic send back to SnapShooter for real time monitoring
7. Once the backup is completed SnapShooter confirms the file size with the storage

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> The data of our platform is our biggest asset and losing tens of thousands of license keys for our software would be a disaster. We're using SnapShooter to create offsite backups of our Laravel applications for peace of mind.

### Latest insights

Discover perspectives from backup experts around data retention, trends, operations - all to help you determine your best path forward.