by Paul Chapin.
Is it possible to extract the contents of a backup file without restoring it to a Moodle server? I have faculty who would like to keep copies of their courses but don't want to depend on the availability of the Moodle in case their go to another institution, or retire, or we move to another LMS. We had to write scripts to extract information from Blackboard archive files, but at least the backup files contained enough information to figure out how to write the scripts.