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

You can always use a file resource to stream the file (advisable for large files) by doing something like this:

Storage::disk('s3')->put('my/bucket/' . $filename, fopen('path/to/local/file', 'r+'));

An alternative suggestion is proposed here. It uses Laravel's Storage facade to read the stream. The basic idea is something like this:

    $inputStream = Storage::disk('local')->getDriver()->readStream('/path/to/file');
    $destination = Storage::disk('s3')->getDriver()->getAdapter()->getPathPrefix().'/my/bucket/';
    Storage::disk('s3')->getDriver()->putStream($destination, $inputStream);