by Colin Fraser.
Hi Andrea,
This has always been an issue, but as no-one, AFAIK, has yet been able to work out how to make backups seriously dynamic , it is a limitation of the backup process. This is not really a Moodle issue, I think, but a technology issue. I am sure there will be a way around this limitation, but I suspect it will have to be done programatically at the moment of restore, not from within the backup/restore file. This also means additional coding, how much I cannot say, will also mean additional maintainance, greater probability of version errors and so on. As the manual option is always available, it is probably better to use that, anyway - even if inconvenient in terms of time management.