I am at my wits end with Moodle. The backup/restore function simply doesn't work. I don't care about the reasons anymore. I've spent a lot of money upgrading disk space and virtual server resources to no avail. I've upgraded the PHP versions and tried everything I can read about on here.
I also can't just upgrade Moodle to the latest version because I needed a lot of customization done by a "Moodle partner" from another country who has gone totally radio silent. As far as I can tell, I'm running Moodle 3.4+ (build 20171228) although I can't find anywhere in Moodle that just says "You are running Moodle version x.xx". If I just overwrite core PHP files with a new version, it'll destroy the thousands of dollars I've spend on this Moodle Partner, who hard coded the changes I needed into the core PHP files.
So, is there a manual way to backup/restore courses? I'm using lots of SCORM and it seems to be getting file sizes between 1-2GB in size.