Cron & Scheduler

Laravel Scheduler allows you to define scheduled tasks in code rather than in the crontab.

Cron configuration

Add a single cron entry to run the Laravel scheduler:

* * * * * cd /var/www/xetasuite-core && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Linux

crontab -e

Add the line above.

Laravel Forge

1. Go to Servers → your server
2. Click on Scheduler
3. Check Enable Scheduler for the site

XetaSuite scheduled tasks

Tasks are defined in routes/console.php:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schedule;

// Clean expired sessions
Schedule::command('session:gc')->daily();

// Prune old failed jobs
Schedule::command('queue:prune-failed --hours=48')->daily();

// Daily backup
Schedule::command('backup:run')->dailyAt('02:00');

// Clean old backups
Schedule::command('backup:clean')->dailyAt('03:00');

Useful commands

View scheduled tasks

php artisan schedule:list

Manually run the scheduler

php artisan schedule:run

Run a specific command

php artisan backup:run

Backups

Note

XetaSuite uses spatie/laravel-backup for automatic backups.

Configuration

Edit config/backup.php:

'backup' => [
    'name' => env('APP_NAME', 'xetasuite'),
    'source' => [
        'files' => [
            'include' => [base_path()],
            'exclude' => [
                base_path('vendor'),
                base_path('node_modules'),
            ],
        ],
        'databases' => ['pgsql'],
    ],
    'destination' => [
        'disks' => ['s3'],  // or 'local'
    ],
],

Available commands

# Run backup
php artisan backup:run

# Run backup (database only)
php artisan backup:run --only-db

# List backups
php artisan backup:list

# Clean old backups
php artisan backup:clean

Monitoring

Check scheduler is running

php artisan schedule:list

View logs

tail -f storage/logs/laravel.log

Failed jobs

php artisan queue:failed