Backup .sql from laravel

Question

I'm going to backup my database .sql file from laravel. when I use artisan command from cmd, the backup file will generated with no issue. but when i do that from controller I got this error.

How to fix this?

mysqldump: Got error: 2004: "Can't create TCP/IP socket (10106 "Unknown error")"

Answer 1

You can use db-dumper package to backup your database.

Installing:

composer require spatie/db-dumper

Usage:

Spatie\DbDumper\Databases\MySql::create()
    ->setDbName($databaseName)
    ->setUserName($userName)
    ->setPassword($password)
    ->dumpToFile('dump.sql');