In a new post to his site Tim MacDonald covers a Laravel backup package provided from Spatie and how to use it to backup your sites (and not just Laravel ones).

Using Spatie's Laravel Backup package you can backup several sites on a server from a single app install, including Laravel apps and WordPress sites.

Laravel Backup is a fantastic package brought to us by to ever awesome team at Spatie, and is only one of the many great packages they have in the wild. This package makes it super simple to backup your Laravel applications, including all your files and production database, to a 3rd party storage facility, such as Amazon S3.

He then describes his own setup, running a smaller server that hosts several of his sites that use Laravel, WordPress and static content. He needed a backup solution that would allow for him to manage backups for all of them. He then walks through the setup of the package and how to configure it for each site type. The post finishes with the command to execute and run the backup for the site and how to schedule it as a part of the recurring jobs handling.