Migrating laravel from one computer to another one [ISSUE]

Hello there,

Intro story: I have a Laravel project which runs via vagrant on one computer which I upload to Gitlab for Version Control. I have another computer on which I clone into the project and run vagrant. This gave me an issue with the uuid.

MacBook:neverbored *************$ vagrant up The VirtualBox VM was created with a user that doesn't match the current user running Vagrant. VirtualBox requires that the same user be used to manage the VM that was created. Please re-run Vagrant with that user. This is not a Vagrant issue.

The UID used to create the VM was: ***** Your UID is: **** -> this contained my id to which I switched

The Problem: My database entries seem to be gone. I have had some users in the the database table "users".

The Question: How do I transfer my project from one computer to another one with the database in tact?

Kind Regards!

Yorki

7 years ago

Best Answer

Level 11

You will need to export your entire database to sql file by mysqldump command https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysqldump.html

mysqldump -u [username] -p [databaseName] > file.sql

Then you will import it by something like

mysql -u [username] -p [databaseName] < file.sql

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ArneDB

7 years ago

Level 2

Alright, I'll try that out! Thanks for the very quick reply!

D9705996

7 years ago

Level 51

@Yorki - You can complement @ArneDB solution using https://github.com/spatie/laravel-backup. This provides really good functionality for automatically backing up you application and your database.

Once configured you can simply do php artisan backup:run and use Task Scheduling or a native cron to run periodically.

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