Re: Rollover of material for new academic year
by Emma Richardson. Yes, all of your course material should be included in the backup. If you have a lot of video you might try using the experimental backup method as it works better with large...
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by Colin Fraser. Hi Doug, it is not a big deal, there is a lot of advice on how to migrate your Moodle, and having run afoul of some very simple processes once or twice, it is not much fun. Not...
View ArticleRe: Backup/Restore won't restore Gradebook Categories
by Justin Almeida. Melissa,You have to do a lot of searching on the forums, but this appears to be an issue moodle does not want to shine a light on and doesn't believe to be a bug or incorrect...
View ArticleRe: Rollover of material for new academic year
by Derek Chirnside. Another option:We get a mirror of one of our moodle sites on a portable HDD. It's reasonably easy to get this set up to be a self contained unit.I've discovered that no matter how...
View ArticleRe: Courses > Backups > Automated backup setup vs Server > Scheduled...
by Doug Moody. Question...You said writable by the cron job. I have the destination folder with full 777 permissions, but is there something in the automated_backups.php script that needs to be...
View ArticleRestore from Backup is allowed for FrontPage course, that is, Course 1 ?
by Manoj Killedar. In Moodle 2.9.1, Restore from Backup is allowed for FrontPage course, that is, Course 1 ?
View ArticleRe: Courses > Backups > Automated backup setup vs Server > Scheduled...
by Emma Richardson. Actually writable by the apache/www data user normally works. Now, I see that Moodle recommends creating your cron job under that user so maybe both are correct.
View ArticleRe: question X was associated with quiz YYYY but not actually used. The...
by Tim Hunt. What is going on is that probably these quizzes were initally created using a restore, and the restore was buggy (there isn't a question 0, so there should never be a reference to...
View ArticleRe: question X was associated with quiz YYYY but not actually used. The...
by Joshua Bragg. The quiz does seem to work fine. Thanks Tim.
View ArticleRe: Separate Capabilities/moodle/restore:restore course with "download course...
by Blair F.. Hi, Wen.I am experiencing the same issue. I'd turned off restore for teachers because they were duplicating "bad" courses. However, after doing that, I discovered this problem so set it...
View ArticleCourse summary files not included in backups?
by Cathal O'Riordan. Hi,I just performed a backup of a course on a Moodle 2.9 instance and noticed that the course summary files are not included in the backed up items. Is this by design? Or has this...
View ArticleRe: Course summary files not included in backups?
by Cathal O'Riordan. I stand corrected. Moodle 2.9 does in fact backup the course summary files associated with a course. Nice one!
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Command line backup failing silently - how can I learn why it's not working?
by Bill MacKenty. Hello My enviornment: PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11, MySQLServer version: 5.5.44Moodle: Moodle 2.9.1+ (Build: 20150730)Running on a virtualized linux server (linode) This is the results of...
View ArticleRe: Command line backup failing silently - how can I learn why it's not working?
by Emma Richardson. I suggest turning on debugging in your Moodle environment and creating the backup from the web interface. With debugging on, if it fails again, it should tell you why.
View Articlebacking up a course
by taj matharu. I am trying to back up a course (lots of documents and flash files) and each time I try back it up it goes into a blank screen. Is there a file size limit??
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Automated course back-up: 'Save to' location
by Joanna Beaver. I have set automated course backups that are running as scheduled, but my 'Save to' link is not working. Could anyone tell me which URL should be pasted into there? I use a...
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Moodle site back up
by Joanna Beaver. Hello I would like to run a Moodle site back up but am unsure which folders I need to back-up, or if it is all of them? I use a hosted/shared server and am accessing the files...
View ArticleRe: Moodle site back up
by Emma Richardson. Because your moodledata folder is within your moodle folder (a big no-no by the way!!) you just need to download the entire Moodle folder and then grab your database.
View ArticleUserdata does not get backed up using manual backups
by Tony Box. I'm trying to do some manual course backups and can't get it to back up user data (activity submissions, forum posts, etc).This should be possible, yeah?I'm taking backups from Moodle 2.5...
View ArticleRe: Prevent restores without preventing backups
by Blair F.. We've upgraded to Moodle 2.8.7 and are still experiencing the problem. This is *somewhat* related to the...
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