spatie/db-dumper

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1176 stars · 158 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A PHP library providing a fluent API to dump database contents to files using native tools like mysqldump, pg_dump, sqlite3, and mongodump. It supports MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and MongoDB and is used by spatie's laravel-backup package.

Use cases

• dump a mysql database to a sql file from php
• create postgresql backups programmatically
• back up sqlite and mongodb databases in php
• generate database dumps for a laravel backup system
• compress database dumps with gzip or bzip2

When to choose

• you need to create database dumps from PHP code with a simple fluent API
• you want a lightweight wrapper around native dump binaries rather than reimplementing dump logic
• you are building a backup system, especially with spatie/laravel-backup

When to avoid

• you need pure-PHP dumping without native binaries like mysqldump installed
• you need a full backup solution with scheduling and notifications rather than just dumping
• you use databases outside MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, or MongoDB

Facets

library · maturity stable

database backup developer-tools databases developer-tools backend php cli cross-platform database-dump mysqldump pg_dump mongodb sqlite mariadb spatie

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