Re: Nightly full site backups
by Ken Task. Depending upon what platform the Moodle runs under and how many courses + availabliity of space, one could set automated backups to manual - choose whatever options that make sense for a...
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by Visvanath Ratnaweera. The general approach is documented here:https://docs.moodle.org/en/Site_backuphttps://docs.moodle.org/en/Site_restore As others have pointed out, the exact details depend very...
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by Jordi Pujol-Ahulló. Hi!I found myself in the same situation, in my Moodle 2.4.I performed the zip operation manually and worked ok also for mi. It tooks 11 minutes for zipping a raw 11Gb (the site...
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by Jordi Pujol-Ahulló. Actually, since there are so many big courses, I find it interesting to automate this task of building manually target zips that, from command line they are built correctly, but...
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by Dwight Hawley. My goal here was not to address specific course backup. The standard Moodle course backup works well for that. This was more a full site restoration in case of catastrophic failure...
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by Dwight Hawley. I'm very familiar with the basic concepts associated with Moodle backups. I was hoping to find, as Peter provided, something specific that someone was actually doing and felt...
View ArticleRe: Can't restore courses - Moodle 2.7.2+
by Philip Roy. We've just had the same issue here...it seems to be something to do with the standalone Windows install of Moodle.Here's our situation...* A hosted version of Moodle 2.5 which we are...
View ArticleIn the FILES table, what is the DRAFT filearea?
by Blair F.. I've got a SQL report that helps me locate excessively large files and delete them. I've included the filearea field but I'm confused about the DRAFT filearea. When I locate the...
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by Ken Task. The following works for versions 2.6, 2.7, and 2.8.command line backup of a course to a designated directory.Advantage: apache not involved. browser not involved. shows all courses...
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by Colin Fraser. Hi Ken, have you seen the suggestion to use Site Administration > Development > Experimental Settings > Enable New Backup format? Apparently is uses the tar.gz compression...
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by Ken Task. Yes, Colin, thanks! Have turned on the experimental and run it on a 2.8 version. It does appear to be faster.For folks that do this ... the routine doesn't change the extension of the...
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by Jordi Pujol-Ahulló. That's really interesting, both to know about the tar.gz compression method and the tests you already did.We are in M2.4, and this feature is not available yet. However, I'll...
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Re: Backup Large Course - work-around? ...
by Ken Task. True, Moodle 2.4 doesn't include an admin/cli/backup.php script, but like I said (maybe not clearly enough or in a related post), one could acquire the code for a 2.7 or 2.8 in a test...
View ArticleRe: moodle 2.8.2 course restore from 2.5.1 backup Error
by diego dubois. i have the same problem recovering backup from 2.5 in 2.8.5. the backup is about 100mb and have a lot of quizes.
View ArticleRe: moodle 2.8.2 course restore from 2.5.1 backup Error
by diego dubois. I put in debug mode and no errors are shows. i installed a clean 2.8.5 and have the same error now i will try to recover in a fresh 2.5.9, and then upgrade to 2.8.5 and then make a...
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by Emma Richardson. Sometimes you just have to wait...a really long time...
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by Ken Task. Follow Up ... using the command line backup.php script ...from moodlecode/admin/cli/nohup php backup.php --courseid=86 --destination=/home/backup/ &nohup means no hang up ... i.e.,...
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by Jordi Pujol-Ahulló. Hi Ken!In our Moodle instance, we set up capabilities in such a way that role editingteacher cannot backup nor restore moodle courses. That way, you automatically prevents...
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