Hello.
My site is just starting, after many years of using Moodle, to want to archive old courses. And we've agreed a timetable to run automated course backups to produce an MBZ file for every course in the system, before deciding which we want to keep as backup files and allow to be deleted on the Moodle site itself.
So we have cloned (completely, including files) the live system so we can start which is likely to be a big process of backing up about 50,000 courses. I have already culled about 10k courses that literally had no content and enrolments to reduce the overall number.
But now I've got to the point of setting up the automated course backup schedule and run into an issue.
First time, I noticed the scheduled task was set to run at 50 minutes past each hour, so, it being 10.30 I set up the automated course backup schedule to run on Monday at 10.50, enabled it and waited. Sure enough it did something...
It appears to have gone through the entire site and marked each course to be "next backup" at 10.50 *next* Monday. I did kind of wonder if there was perhaps a time zone issue. SO I set it again, this time to 12.10 in the backup schedule and 11.15 in the scheduled task, but of course now it appears to have marked everything in the backup logs as only to be processed next Monday I can't seem to get it to clear that out so I can try again.
Any thoughts?
Best wishes,
Jock Coats (Oxford Brookes)