laravel-mysqldump

Purpose

• Easily dump whole databases or specific tables, with artisan mysql:export
• Easily import, with artisan mysql:import
• Strip content from tables, for example, strip the customer data but keep the product catalog.

Setup

Install with:

composer require corrivate/laravel-mysqldump

Configuration

Configuration is not required. You can ad-hoc decide to strip tables by using artisan mysql:export --strip= with a comma-separated list of tables.

If your project has a standard set of tables you usually want to strip during export, you can configure them so that you can use the --stripped option. You can do so in in config/database.php like this:

Credits

This package is built on top of spatie/db-dumper. The original inspiration was the Magento packages magerun2 and mage-db-sync.

Corrivate

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Etymology

From Latin corrivatus, past participle of corrivare ("to corrivate").

Verb

corrivate (third-person singular simple present corrivates, present participle corrivating, simple past and past participle corrivated)

(obsolete) To cause to flow together, as water drawn from several streams.