backup on flysystem sftp disk fails

[design4business]

disk on tinker ist working as expected

Psy Shell v0.11.8 (PHP 8.1.9 — cli) by Justin Hileman

Storage::disk('backup')->exists('example.txt');
=> false

Storage::disk('backup')->put('example.txt', 'Contents');
=> true

Storage::disk('backup')->exists('example.txt');
=> true

backup:run fails with

STFP Flysystem Conf

    'backup' => [
        'driver' => 'sftp',
        'host' => env('SFTP_HOST'),

        // Settings for basic authentication...
        'username' => env('SFTP_USERNAME'),
        //'password' => env('SFTP_PASSWORD'),

        // Settings for SSH key based authentication with encryption password...
        'privateKey' => env('SFTP_PRIVATE_KEY'),
        //'passphrase' => env('SFTP_PASSPHRASE'),

        // Optional SFTP Settings...
        // 'hostFingerprint' => env('SFTP_HOST_FINGERPRINT'),
        // 'maxTries' => 4,
        // 'passphrase' => env('SFTP_PASSPHRASE'),
        // 'port' => env('SFTP_PORT', 22),
         'root' => env('SFTP_ROOT', ''),
        // 'timeout' => 30,
        // 'useAgent' => true,
    ],

Spatie Backup Disk Conf

'disks' => [
'backup',
],

Errors

Copying zip failed because: Could not connect to disk backup because: ErrorException: foreach() argument must be of type array|object, bool given in /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/league/flysystem-sftp-v3/SftpAdapter.php:277
Stack trace:
#0 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Bootstrap/HandleExceptions.php(259): Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions->handleError()
#1 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/league/flysystem-sftp-v3/SftpAdapter.php(277): Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\HandleExceptions->Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap{closure}()
#2 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/league/flysystem/src/Filesystem.php(113): League\Flysystem\PhpseclibV3\SftpAdapter->listContents()
#3 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/league/flysystem/src/DirectoryListing.php(33): League\Flysystem\Filesystem->pipeListing()
#4 [internal function]: League\Flysystem\DirectoryListing::League\Flysystem{closure}()
#5 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/league/flysystem/src/DirectoryListing.php(81): iterator_to_array()
#6 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/league/flysystem/src/DirectoryListing.php(56): League\Flysystem\DirectoryListing->toArray()
#7 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/FilesystemAdapter.php(778): League\Flysystem\DirectoryListing->sortByPath()
#8 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/BackupDestination/BackupDestination.php(140): Illuminate\Filesystem\FilesystemAdapter->files()
#9 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Tasks/Backup/BackupJob.php(286): Spatie\Backup\BackupDestination\BackupDestination->isReachable()
#10 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Collections/Traits/EnumeratesValues.php(262): Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\BackupJob->Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup{closure}()
#11 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Tasks/Backup/BackupJob.php(304): Illuminate\Support\Collection->each()
#12 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Tasks/Backup/BackupJob.php(168): Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\BackupJob->copyToBackupDestinations()
#13 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Commands/BackupCommand.php(58): Spatie\Backup\Tasks\Backup\BackupJob->run()
#14 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php(36): Spatie\Backup\Commands\BackupCommand->handle()
#15 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Util.php(41): Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::Illuminate\Container{closure}()
#16 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php(93): Illuminate\Container\Util::unwrapIfClosure()
#17 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php(37): Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::callBoundMethod()
#18 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php(651): Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::call()
#19 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php(144): Illuminate\Container\Container->call()
#20 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/symfony/console/Command/Command.php(308): Illuminate\Console\Command->execute()
#21 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php(126): Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command->run()
#22 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/spatie/laravel-backup/src/Commands/BaseCommand.php(28): Illuminate\Console\Command->run()
#23 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(1002): Spatie\Backup\Commands\BaseCommand->run()
#24 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(299): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRunCommand()
#25 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php(171): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->doRun()
#26 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Application.php(102): Symfony\Component\Console\Application->run()
#27 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/Kernel.php(155): Illuminate\Console\Application->run()
#28 /home/thisismyuserroot/html/artisan(37): Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel->handle()
#29 {main}

[parallels999]

Feel free to make a PR fixing it

[Jipem]

Same problem.
Solved by manually creating the folder on the SFTP to host the backups using this name of the backup.name variable
Problem solved since. It was indeed the creation of the backup folder of the site that created this SFTP error.