von Son TRAN.
Dear Ken Task,
Thank you for your detailed guide. Indeed I dont want to migrate the whole site, because I just want to clean up the data a little bit while moving to a new site / new moodle version (especially we have been using 3.11 for 4 years already).
The problem I am facing is that backup each course becomes a cumbersome task. With GUI, the restoring process always finishes with getting stucked somewhere over 90%. So I have to do that with commandline, one by one. Furthermore each result backup file is quite big, in a range of GBytes. Eventually we have only ~ 100 courses, but the process seems long and space consuming...
So I take the opportunity to ask for your recommendation on the following tasks I am trying right now:
1-What is the efficient options I should check while backing up a course? A course having 70 topics consisting 5 activities each (not always having video) can create a backup of several GBytes seems strange for me.
2-Using commandline call to backup course, can we backup a full category of courses ?
3-I will check the upgrading method for Moodle, but in brief, I just download the code folder of the new Moodle version, setting the config file pointing to the old DB (the DB server is likely upgraded previously to an appropriate version) and moodle-data, then just visit the new moodle site, and observe the code running the upgrading process automatically, won't I? Can I make a far upgrading, say from 3.11.6+ directly to 4.2.1+
Thanks again for your precious guide.
Thank you for your detailed guide. Indeed I dont want to migrate the whole site, because I just want to clean up the data a little bit while moving to a new site / new moodle version (especially we have been using 3.11 for 4 years already).
The problem I am facing is that backup each course becomes a cumbersome task. With GUI, the restoring process always finishes with getting stucked somewhere over 90%. So I have to do that with commandline, one by one. Furthermore each result backup file is quite big, in a range of GBytes. Eventually we have only ~ 100 courses, but the process seems long and space consuming...
So I take the opportunity to ask for your recommendation on the following tasks I am trying right now:
1-What is the efficient options I should check while backing up a course? A course having 70 topics consisting 5 activities each (not always having video) can create a backup of several GBytes seems strange for me.
2-Using commandline call to backup course, can we backup a full category of courses ?
3-I will check the upgrading method for Moodle, but in brief, I just download the code folder of the new Moodle version, setting the config file pointing to the old DB (the DB server is likely upgraded previously to an appropriate version) and moodle-data, then just visit the new moodle site, and observe the code running the upgrading process automatically, won't I? Can I make a far upgrading, say from 3.11.6+ directly to 4.2.1+
Thanks again for your precious guide.