First I'll try to relate what I would think is the simpler issue. I'd like our faculty to do their development on our dev server at dev.ourdomain.com. Then once the course is ready to go live, it gets moved to our production server at production.ourdomain.com. This seems like a very normal workflow but I'm not sure of the best way to initiate it.
I tried something very simple (I thought) like backing up a course on the dev server to my laptop then restoring that course on the production side. Backing up and downloading to my laptop is no problem. When I try to restore, it just sit there with a spinning icon until I close out.
I realize there is much written on this and I feel like I'm sent down a dozen different rabbit trails to find out if it is this or that. i can do that if necessary. This is such a fundamental process I guess I'm just wondering if someone who does this all the time can chime in with their expertise on how you set up to make this happen routinely.
Server info is:
Moodle 2.7.9 on both
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.