by Stuart Mealor.
My gut instinct says that someone just viewing a course would not be considered a 'change'
I understand what you are saying about a view of a course being logged, but the logs are central, and not part of the course content (the log tables are just related to courses via the course id).
So I'd be 99% sure a view will not be taken as a change to a course for backup purposes. Worth a quick test though