Hi Emma
Thanks for the link, I'd actually used it to help me setup my smtp server on Moodle, and rechecked, everything is entered as was suggested.
I made several changes to a few courses yesterday, and even though I didn't get an email reporting about the backup and the reports still say skipped for each course, the size of the backup file that was created today is considerably larger than earlier ones.
What I've done today is make a small (reversible) change to one page in a course I won't be editing for a while and will try restoring it tomorrow. I've never done a restore before, is it course specific and done at the course level? I'd hate to lose all of the data I'm going to enter today for all of the other courses.
Thanks in advance,
Barb