Re: Reuse courses
by Pat McClanahan. Thanks....I had not looked in the documentation (obviously).pat
View ArticleCourse restore hung on Moodle 2.9
by David Ha. We have just upgraded our Moodle 2.6 to Moodle 2.9. The backups run just fine. But we cannot restore any courses. It hung.We did a manual backup with Moodle 2.9 (just to make sure) and...
View Articlebackup automatically is not working with me
by may aldaenee. i did all the settings but its not started .. i checked in the log its give me no logs
View ArticleRe: backup automatically is not working with me
by Emma Richardson. Have you set up cron?
View ArticleRe: backup automatically is not working with me
by may aldaenee. no until now i didn't set up cron i made all the settings in the application
View ArticleRe: backup automatically is not working with me
by Emma Richardson. Well, cron is what makes the backups run. If it is not configured, then they will not run. See the documentation on Cron to see how to configure it.
View ArticleSelect Destination Topic During Restore/Import?
by Justin Almeida. I've done a fair amount of searching for this feature both in the forums and in moodle 2.7.3 interface, but I don't see a manner in which to perform such.Example:I have 30-45 items...
View ArticleAutomated backup pending
by Albert Ramsbottom. HiI am on a windows, IIS system and our automated course backups seem to be hanging, in the reports section they are returning as "Automated Backups Pending. Only around 8 have...
View ArticleRe: Automated backup pending
by Albert Ramsbottom. I have also noticed that the date of the baxkup suggests1 Jan, 00:00-1 Jan, 00:00Automated backup pending27 May, 17:15
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by Albert Ramsbottom. Additionally , as I am testing this I have asked the automated backups to back up all courses regardless if they have changed or not. I assume that the cron runs every 15...
View ArticleRe: Automated backup pending
by Emma Richardson. The backups will run when you tell the settings to make them run. So, you need to pick which days you want them to run and the time. It is a good idea to run them in the middle...
View ArticleRe: Automated backup pending
by Albert Ramsbottom. Hi EmmaI have ascertained that the errors are not related to the backup issues, they are however odd as I have a 300 second max-execution times out in my PHP. But that's is...
View ArticleRe: Automated backup pending
by Emma Richardson. So, go into your database and find the backup_controllers log table. Find the reference to that file and delete the entry or change the status to completed (you will need to find...
View ArticleRe: Automated backup pending
by Albert Ramsbottom. Well I am not sure that I need to change any entries in the DBHowever this is now become a wider problem insofar as I left the automated course backup running and it is still...
View ArticleRe: Strange behavior with automatic backups (Moodle takes coffee break in...
by Albert Ramsbottom. Did you ever fix this?
View ArticleRe: Automated backup pending
by Albert Ramsbottom. Here is interesting, the cron is being run in windows, IIS environment. i.e all the relevant cron scripts are run by scheduled tasks and then run the individual scripts such as...
View ArticleRe: Automatic Backups not working in all my courses
by Albert Ramsbottom. I am having similar issue on Moodle 2.6.3https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=314226I have identified that the courses that become unfinished and hand for a few hours each...
View ArticleRe: Automatic Backups not working in all my courses
by Albert Ramsbottom. I have also noticed that for each unfinished course backup, Moodle creates a couple of extra files in Moodle-data/temp/backup that do not correspond to a folder nameAll other...
View ArticleRe: Automatic Backups not working in all my courses
by Ken Task. @Albert ...After completing successfully, Moodle should 'clean up' the temp directory it created and the only item one should see is a 0 byte file with the autogenerated directory name...
View ArticleRe: Automatic Backups not working in all my courses
by Albert Ramsbottom. Thanks for the info, very informativeDo you think that this might be related to your issue:http://lewiscarr.co.uk/2013/03/large-backups-fail-moodle-2/I have discovered from PHP...
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