Re: Automated backup problem
by Anis Jradah. Dear Ken,Thank you for your detailed feedback.I will follow all the steps mentioned above and keep you updated.Best regards,Anis
View ArticleCourse backup not listed but does appear in database and filedir
by Huw Smith. I have 1 course with a lot of video files and the MBZ file was over 50GB, we had to disable the automated backups as it was taking too long to backup and effecting performance.I have...
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by Marinda Faasen. Dear VisvanathThank you for your advice. It is really helpful. I have one question though: I would still like to save the backups to a separate folder e.g. /var/course_backups. If I...
View ArticleRe: Courses > Backups > Automated backup setup vs Server > Scheduled...
by Emma Richardson. Yes, as long as the folder is present and accessible.
View Articlequestion X was associated with quiz YYYY but not actually used. The instance...
by Joshua Bragg. I just restored a backup from to our 2.9.1 site from an older 2.6.10 site that someone else manages. The course restored successfully but generated a long string of messages...
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Re: Courses > Backups > Automated backup setup vs Server > Scheduled...
by Séverin Terrier. Yes, i can confirm that : it's what i use Accessible means writable by the cron job.
View ArticleNeed help restoring LARGE course backup (Moodle 2.7.1)
by Mike Brinkman. One of our instructors had a ton of MP3 files in his music course, so the backup ended up being 2.5 GB. Our max size on the server is 2 GB, so the upload fails.I was going to restore...
View ArticleRe: Need help restoring LARGE course backup (Moodle 2.7.1)
by Ken Task. Sounds like production server needs file system repository.Please see:https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/File_system_repositoryThe directory created for the file system respository is outside...
View ArticleRe: Need help restoring LARGE course backup (Moodle 2.7.1)
by Mike Brinkman. Hi Ken,Thanks for the suggestion. It's a very good one, but a little more involved than I'd like to get for just restoring this particular course. Hopefully we can get it...
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Re: Need help restoring LARGE course backup (Moodle 2.7.1)
by Ken Task. Uhhh ... thought I did address:"I know in pre-Moodle 2.x, you could just stick the file in the local uploads folder and restore it from there, but with Moodle 2.X, I have no clue."In 2.x...
View Article'Locked by dependencies' - Can't import activities
by Erin Billy. I have been trying to import some activities into a course, but when I get to the 'Include' screen, I am prevented from doing so because of the 'Locked by dependencies' error (as can be...
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error on duplicate record
by Brandon Jimenez. hello I'm running a Moodle 2.7+ (Build: 20140613) site, and I was fixing some bugs, and this happened:I was changing a couple of php files and modifying some strings in them, and...
View ArticleRe: error on duplicate record
by Emma Richardson. I guess I would suggest undoing your PHP changes and get your site functional again. Then implement them one a time to find out which one is causing the issues.
View ArticleRe: error on duplicate record
by Brandon Jimenez. Well I followed your suggestion but now I'm back where i Started. The php changes weren't that big to begin with, but nevertheless reverting them made the thing stable again.Anyway...
View ArticleRe: Rollover of material for new academic year
by Antonio Crespo. Good afternoon,I am using a new installation of Moodle 2.91 and I am transferring the courses from the previous version (2.5.1+) using Upload Courses with a column for "backupfile"...
View ArticleRe: Rollover of material for new academic year
by Colin Fraser. Hi Antonio, and I hope I am reading this right, when you talk about a new installation of v2.91, do you mean that you have created an entirely new Moodle? Totally vanilla? On a brand...
View ArticleRe: Rollover of material for new academic year
by Antonio Crespo. Hi Collin,Thanks for responding and for your suggestions. For several reasons we did not want to migrate from our previous version of Moodle, but preferred to do the 'hard way'.I...
View ArticleRe: Rollover of material for new academic year
by Colin Fraser. Believe it or not, Antonio, I just ran across this document in a completely different context... have a read and it might help - unless of course, you have already seen it. Scroll...
View ArticleRe: Rollover of material for new academic year
by Visvanath Ratnaweera. See "End of year rollover processes"https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=317082.
View ArticleRe: Rollover of material for new academic year
by Doug Moody. Colin,I am going to change servers when I start a new year. I don't have access to the moodledata folder on the old server, but I can make a backup of the old courses.I am concerned...
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