Re: Import course from other moodle site
by Emma Richardson. Just use the backup and restore feature from the course in moodle. They are designed so that they can go to a different site.
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Re: Potential coding error - existing temptables found when disposing...
by Séverin Terrier. Hi,Could you explain better what was the problem, and the solution you applied to solve it?It can be useful for other people Séverin
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by Baptiste Lhoste. Hi,Of course, I thought that my response was clear enough ... my bad.I had an issue when I tried to restore a course from a backup.In my browser, I had a message saying something...
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Re: Table "resource_old" doesn't exist
by Eloy Lafuente (stronk7). Hi Visvanath,the "resource_old" table is a must-exist table in every Moodle site. It's used to keep the track of some (pre 2.0) Moodle resources information, but no matter...
View ArticleRe: Help! all file links broken after restore
by Jörg S.. Hi,what about the sourcecode of your page? Are there some blank lines in the beginning? Maybe even when you download an image?Make sure that you have no ?> at the end of your config.php...
View ArticleRe: Programmatic backup and restore
by Perry Way. It took a while to reverse-engineer but I did it. I'm able to make backups exactly as I want to now, programmatically.Now on to the next step which is programmatic restoring of backup x...
View ArticleRe: invalidrestorefile error on course restore
by Thomas College. I ended up recommending that the instructor import the course without the PDFs, and then manually link them back in.Thanks
View ArticleRe: Experiences with tgz backups - should it become default?
by Tim Hunt. As a developer I sometimes have to pick apart .bzg files, and occasionally put them back together again after editing. And, most of the time I am stuck working on Windows.Dealing with...
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by ryan sanders. http://www.7-zip.org/<- what i use vs winzip. 500 megs of text files = winzip an hour or longer. 7zip = 10 minutes. it seems like. right click in "file explorer" of windows =...
View ArticleThe selected file is not a valid Moodle backup file and can't be restored.
by Mike Wills. Hello all,I jave successfully done this before but now not seem to be working. I am backing up courses from a Moodle 1.9 site to Moodle 2.72After fixing the max upload size I now get a...
View ArticleRe: The selected file is not a valid Moodle backup file and can't be restored.
by Emma Richardson. What kind of file is the backup? What extension? Has it been unzipped and rezipped? Do you have the experimental backup setting turned on in your 2.7 site (not sure if this...
View ArticleRe: The selected file is not a valid Moodle backup file and can't be restored.
by Ken Task. +1 to Emma's questions/response:Unzip a copy of the backup from the 1.9 into a test folder. Moodle backup in 1.9 must find a 'moodle.xml' file at the top level of the backup when...
View ArticleRe: Programmatic backup and restore
by Perry Way. Looks like backup files are made without error but the backup files themselves are not working when it comes to restore because some activities that I set to not be backed up are being...
View ArticleReuse courses
by Luís Rocha Graça. Hi there,I have a question regarding the best practice on reusing a course.I've been working with Moodle for almost five years and every time I would need to start a new course I...
View ArticleRe: Reuse courses
by Emma Richardson. We now have the upload course option which allows you to reference an existing course as a template. That is definitely the easiest way to duplicate courses.
View ArticleNightly full site backups
by Dwight Hawley. I've wound my way through the forum discussions which leave me disjointed at best as they all seem to address an "issue". I'l be sure to revisit when I get an "issue" but for now I...
View ArticleRe: Nightly full site backups
by Peter Halverson. Here is my take on backups. The Moodle built-in backup system works but it is very slow and sometimes it fails for lack of resources. Instead what I do is backup the SQLdatabase...
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by Just H. How do you restore a specific course out of that regime?
View ArticleRe: Nightly full site backups
by Peter Halverson. This type of backup won't allow you to restore a specific course. What it does do is get you back in business if a disaster happens and your moodle database or files are...
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