Laravel 5: How do you copy a local file to Amazon S3?

Question

I\'m writing code in Laravel 5 to periodically backup a MySQL database. My code thus far looks like this:

    $filename = \'database_backup_\'.date(\'G_a_m_d_y\         


        

Answer 1

Laravel has now putFile and putFileAs method to allow stream of file.

Automatic Streaming

If you would like Laravel to automatically manage streaming a given file to your storage location, you may use the putFile or putFileAs method. This method accepts either a Illuminate\Http\File or Illuminate\Http\UploadedFile instance and will automatically stream the file to your desired location:

use Illuminate\Http\File;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Storage;

// Automatically generate a unique ID for file name...
Storage::putFile('photos', new File('/path/to/photo'));

// Manually specify a file name...
Storage::putFileAs('photos', new File('/path/to/photo'), 'photo.jpg');

Link to doc: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/filesystem (Automatic Streaming)

Hope it helps