General error : The system cannot find the path specified.

[Justinchua-L]

I have trying to use this package for my laravel project to backup the database .

Database:mysql
LARAVEL Version: 8

The things is do is

1. run composer require spatie/laravel-backup
2. put "Spatie\Backup\BackupServiceProvider::class," under config/app.php
3. run php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Backup\BackupServiceProvider"
4. update my config/database.php
   its like this

'mysql' => [
'driver' => 'mysql',
'url' => env('DATABASE_URL'),
'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
'prefix_indexes' => true,
'strict' => true,
'engine' => null,
'options' => extension_loaded('pdo_mysql') ? array_filter([
PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA => env('MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA'),
]) : [],
'dump' => [
'dump_binary_path' => 'D:\xampp\mysql\bin/', // only the path, so without mysqldump or pg_dump
'use_single_transaction',
'timeout' => 60 * 5, // 5 minute timeout

        ],
    ],

but i got the following erros here : Backup failed because: The dump process failed with exitcode 1 : General error : The system cannot find the path specified.

Can anyone give me a help, im been struggling with this for 3 days

[erikn69]

put "Spatie\Backup\BackupServiceProvider::class," under config/app.php

It is innescessary, it is automatic

'dump_binary_path' => 'D:\xampp\mysql\bin/',

put mysql bin on environment path variable, and delete that entrie

And the config that you wrote is different to the image, C:\\ and D:\\

[Justinchua-L]

Hi I have already add path to the environment variable , but its still not working ？ did i miss other things?

and im using the the path D:\xammp\mysql\bin

[erikn69]

and delete that entrie

You don't follow that instruction

And maybe the path where the backup is saved doesnt exists, or the temp path doesnt exists

Also: requirements

It's not compatible with Windows

[Justinchua-L]

oh sorry , can you tell me which part should i delete ? this is my first time to use spatie for backup .

and regarding to the path , is there a way to know the correct path location ? like execure some file in cmd . thanks for the reply and your patient to answer my question.

[erikn69]

Read again and you find wich part must be deleted

[Justinchua-L]

I have try to delete the part needed to be deleted but just showing the same result , anyways thanks for the help . i will still looking for other solutions