Re: Automated course backups run time estimate?

by Stuart Mealor.  

Hi Paul.

These days the Moodle backup system is more sophisticated.

So once you have a single full backup (maybe starting on a Friday night?) you can do things such as:

• Skip courses not modified for a specific number of days
• Skip courses not modified since the last backup

So, if you had 500 courses, but only 100 or so had actually changed overnight, you could get to a position where only the courses that actually changed, and therefore need backing up, are processed.  Course that don't need to be backed up are skipped.  So in this scenario, your backup process would take 80% less time !

We use Linux for all our Moodle servers, but I expect the Windows server will be slower.