I have this example

public static function boot()
    {
        // make the parent (Eloquent) boot method run
        parent::boot();    

        // cause a soft delete of a product to cascade to children so they are also soft deleted
        static::deleted(function($invoice)
        {
          	try
          	{
          		DB::beginTransaction();
	           	$invoice->detail()->delete();
	           	$invoice->folio()->delete();
	           	$invoice->total()->delete();
	           	DB::commit();
       		}
       		catch(Exception $e)
       		{
       			DB::rollback();
       			throw new Exception("Error Processing Request", 1);
       			
       		}
        });

        static::restored(function($invoice)
    	{
    		$invoice->detail()->restore();
           	$invoice->folio()->restore();
           	$invoice->total()->restore();
    	});
    }

Thanks!

But I think this has to be mentioned in documents. It gave me headache for some hours :))

It is: http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/eloquent#soft-deleting

And btw should you have a headache again, just use your IDE or editor's feature called find in project/ find in files etc and simply search for the method you need ;)

Yes, the docs mention the soft delete trait, but it doesn't mention that those events are defined in that trait!

Normally, you would look at http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/eloquent#model-events to find events related to your model (as a reference I mean).

The search thing is good too, but it doesn't replace the docs not mentioning this!

It seems I am counting on docs more than I should :)

I can suggest you with one software and that is "Ahsay backup" as i am using this software for my business use , So try it out. Many new softwares i have tries like acronis etc but i guess according to the speed i would 9/10 marks to this software. Use it.