DB Backups: Automate and TEST Them

Hi, If I use spatie media library with Amazon Web Service S3; Would be the images backed-up as well?. It would be better to use another provider to make the backups, wouldn't it? so the backup provider have to be different to any other provider. ok?

I did what's in the tuto above & I wanted to add slack.com webhook so I can get a notification in a channel so I did : composer require laravel/slack-notification-channel because I saw this command in the config/backup.php commented doc.

( I don't think I can do this step : https://laraveldaily.com/uploads/2024/12/forge-scheduler.png ) since I was testing this on localhost, should I install forceCLI or something like this ? or cloud this be done using cronJobs ? )

• Testing this on plesk server would be easier I think since it got the schedules section (https://i.imgur.com/MZj1I7I.png) , but what about localhost ? is there any tutorial for that?

admin@Med-Macbook-M3-Max elearny_app_web % php artisan backup:run

   Error 

  Non-static method Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule::command() cannot be called statically

  at routes/console.php:26
     22▕ 
     23▕ 
     24▕ 
     25▕ 
  ➜  26▕ Schedule::command('backup:clean')->daily()->at('01:00');
     27▕ Schedule::command('backup:run')->daily()->at('01:30');
     28▕ 

  1   app/Console/Kernel.php:30
      +2 vendor frames 

  4   artisan:35
      Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel::handle(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))

admin@Med-Macbook-M3-Max elearny_app_web % 

I tried to add the this part of the code in the app/Console/Kernel.php :

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule): void
{
    $schedule->command('backup:clean')->daily()->at('01:00');
    $schedule->command('backup:run')->daily()->at('01:30');
}

Also I kept getting these errors while running php artisan backup:run :

Error Output
============
mysqldump: Got error: 2005: "Unknown server host 'localhost:3306' (8)" when trying to connect
.... ..... ......
Output\ConsoleOutput))
#24 {main}
Backup failed because: The dump process failed with a none successful exitcode.
Exitcode
========
2: Misuse of shell builtins

Output
======
<no output>

Error Output
============
mysqldump: Got error: 2005: "Unknown server host 'localhost:3306' (8)" when trying to connect
.

Also one more question, since this works with S3, would it also work for the Cloudflare R2 cloud storage ?