Thank you. Sadly the Windows install page is so far out of date, that it isn't a great deal of help. It gives a general gist of how it might work on Windows.
I've tried putting one of the backups onto a test Moodle that was updated to the latest version of Moodle 4 this morning. My hope being that if it worked on that then I simply needed to upgrade live.
Sadly it didn't work but this one does have debug functioning.
It errors onto a 500 error page.
On reloading the page it came up with
error/restore_not_executable_awaiting_required
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Debug info:
Error code: restore_not_executable_awaiting_required
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Stack trace:
line 165 of \backup\util\plan\restore_plan.class.php: restore_controller_exception thrown
line 408 of \backup\controller\restore_controller.class.php: call to restore_plan->execute()
line 219 of \backup\util\ui\restore_ui.class.php: call to restore_controller->execute_plan()
line 144 of \backup\restore.php: call to restore_ui->execute()
The moodle_backup.log in the temp\backup\folder\ is empty.
The moodle_backup.xml is populated.
It has no question bank questions in the course.
Clicking continue on that gives me some more trace
A required parameter (contextid) was missing
Error code: missingparam
- line 497 of \lib\setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown
- line 595 of \lib\moodlelib.php: call to print_error()
- line 35 of \backup\restore.php: call to required_param()
error/moodle/missingparam
A required parameter (id) was missing.
This error happens when a webpage expects a parameter to be passed from another page (by post or cookie), and it fails to do so.
This happens sometimes when user session times out, due to inactivity, or when an URL that needs that mandatory parameter is instead directly typed in URL bar or invoked from browser bookmarks, like the SCORM Player page not being launched from a link in the course page.
We are possibly timing out as we don't have the fastest Moodle on the planet, but at this point I have absolutely no idea what I can do about it.
We might be losing cookies becasue we often get that message on a course page about cookies, no matter how many times I say yes to it.
Off to investigate to in an optimistic manner.
Thank you