Have a 2.2.6+ server for which I haven't run the cron job in a long time. Thus, the trashdir in moodledata still contains courses/files to be removed. So same process as mentioned before only in the 'trashdir'.
once again, the cron job that empties the trashier must not have run.
cd moodledata/trashdir/
if the directory exist
ls -lR
list directory long and recursive
Will show something like this:
[root@sos trashdir]# ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 09:58 8d
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 09:58 fa
[root@sos trashdir]# ls -lR
.:
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 09:58 8d
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Dec 21 09:58 fa
./8d:
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Dec 21 09:58 8f
./8d/8f:
total 27988
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 28625837 Oct 3 08:12 8d8fcf878bbfc553fa6ae3f6d4af748a878743cd
./fa:
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Dec 21 09:58 4b
./fa/4b:
total 16
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 12748 Oct 3 08:12 fa4bbdc44a9b6a79ea513f9ea0833ae4441fa31d
Backups are more than likely larger than other files. In this example, notice the 8d8fcf878bbfc553fa6ae3f6d4af748a878743cd file in ./8d/8f/
is 28625837 in size.
It might be a backup that hasn't been removed.
cd moodledata/trashdir/8d/8f/
cp 8d8fcf878bbfc553fa6ae3f6d4af748a878743cd /home/test/
cd /home/test/
mv 8d8fcf878bbfc553fa6ae3f6d4af748a878743cd acoursebackup.zip
unzip acoursebackup.zip
Again, if you see files/folders like:
course gradebook.xml moodle_backup.xml roles.xml users.xml
activities files groups.xml outcomes.xml scales.xml
completion.xml files.xml moodle_backup.log questions.xml sections
It's a backup! ;)
To see the course name:
head -n 4 moodle_backup.xml
will show:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<moodle_backup>
<information>
<name>backup-moodle2-course-testmobile-20121003-0812.mbz</name>
Again, best of luck!
'spirit of sharing', Ken