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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?
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.
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