May 23, 2025

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OP

Level 2

Schedule Spatie backup AWS

I've set up spatie-backup on an AWS Lightsail instance which backs up successfully from the command line. I am now wishing to schedule a daily backup and run it from a crontab on the server. The schedule runs but posts a failure with a 'mysqldump not found' error.

Does anyone have any advice, please?

Best Answer

Level 122

mysqldump must be available as it runs when you do it.

Its probably not in a path that is known to the web server user or whatever user your cron runs as.

You can find the path and then add it to the config file

https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-backup/v9/installation-and-setup#content-dumping-the-database

I prefer to put an env() helper here and defer to the .env file for the path.

OP

Level 2

@Snapey - thanks very much. All OK now. That was very helpful

Level 122

@oldgit Thats good. I assume you added the path to config.

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