---
title: "Laravel Backup Server v4 Released as Open Source"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-backup-server-v4-released-as-open-source-jplkpupaf
source_url: https://laravel-news.com/spatie-laravel-backup-server-v4-released-as-open-source
type: article
source: "Laravel News"
published: 2025-01-30T14:07:54.733Z
updated: 2025-01-30T14:08:08.835Z
tags: ["open-source", "devops", "php", "laravel"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 38
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Laravel Backup Server v4 Released as Open Source

**[Laravel News](https://daily.dev/sources/ln)** · 2 min read · 38 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Spatie has released Laravel Backup Server v4 as an open-source package. Initially a paid offering, it backs up multiple servers, employs hard link deduplication, allows for file search within backups, automates cleanup of old backups, monitors backup health, and provides notification of issues. It requires Laravel v10 or v11, PHP 8.2, rsync v3 or higher, and the ext3/ext4 filesystem. The package is available on GitHub.

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**@agelospanagiota** · 0 upvotes

> spatie did it again! <3

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