by David Mulcahy.
Hi everyone,
My automatic backups failed on one course (49mb). When I tried to manually backup the course these were also failing. I timed the backup and it was taking over 60 seconds to backup the course and it was stopping at 98%. The max execution time of the server is 60 seconds so I attributed this to that.
While I can't increase the execution time of the server permanently, I can increase it to 300 seconds for one hour. When I did, backups ran fine and so did manual back ups.
My question is, is it normal for backups to take this long on a relatively small course? There are only 3 courses on the moodle and the others are much smaller. Would upgrading my hosting be necessary? Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated.