by Ken Russell.
I have looked into this a bit further. It turns out that none of the courses will back up, not just the big ones. They always stall in the last few % of the process, the process just hangs there. It does create a directory in moodledata/temp/backup/ but there is no .mbz file there but a lot of .xml files! (see pic).
Is there a bug in the backup routine? Or perhaps I need to change some permissions on a directory on the server? I don't need to download these files from the server, I want to use them to clone the course on the same server.
Are there any other strategies or suggestions that I can try for solving this issue?
Thanks very much!