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Creating encrypted backups of Laravel apps

simonkollross.de

Simon Kollross explains how to use our laravel-backup package to create an encrypted backup of your Laravel based app.

You should always encrypt backups of your apps and securely transfer them to one or multiple backup destinations. If you encrypt the backups on your server and transfer only the encrypted version, your backups are stored encrypted at rest in your backup destination. Not even your backup storage provider is able to read them.

Read more [simonkollross.de]

APP_KEY And You

tighten.co

Jake Bathman, developer at Tigthen Co, wrote a new blogpost explaining what Laravel's APP_KEY environment variable is used for.

In this post, we'll talk about what APP_KEY does and doesn't do, some common misconceptions about its relationship to user password hashing, and the simple steps to changing your APP_KEY safely without losing access to your data.

Read more [tighten.co]