Re: M2.9 Restoring a course onto new server, student names + Data
by barbara nance. HiMany thanks for the reply:Have been going through the names/email addresses etc and have found that its not always the college email address student +data that was missing, but...
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by Tony Box. I'm having this same issue. I'm the main site administrator and I'm not able to back up user data. I see the same thing that Inbar sees.I turned on debugging and went through the backup...
View ArticleRe: Userdata does not get backed up using manual backups
by Tony Box. Thanks for linking to that other post, Jerry. I just added my own info to it.Hopefully we can figure this out!
View ArticleRe: Manual backup with user info
by Ken Task. @Tony ... Did you check system defaults for backups to make sure user data is not locked out?What version of Moodle? Got command line access? In moodlecode/admin/cli/ there is a script...
View ArticleRestore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql, and \etc\mysql
by Eric Messick. I messed up Ubuntu upgrade 14.10 to 15.04 running Moodle 2.8.7. Didn't backup mysql with mysqldump. Can I install Moodle 2.8.7 onto a new VPS with Ubuntu 14.10 and restore using the 4...
View ArticleRe: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql, and \etc\mysql
by Ken Task. Ouch! That hurts!First, in Linux, the directory slashes lean the other way. ;)Am thinking that what you have will work on 15.04 and it's probably advisable as 14.10 has reached end of...
View ArticleRe: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql, and \etc\mysql
by Eric Messick. Hi, thanks Ken. I hope my coding is a bit better than my slashing.Cheers for your help. I did heaps of reading and experimenting. Got a new Moodle 2.8 running on Ubuntu 14.10 (only...
View ArticleRe: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql, and \etc\mysql
by Ken Task. To help with the DB, you could install phpmyadmin.Not sure about workbench, don't use it, but ... mysql command lineat mysql> prompt (which means you've logged onto to mysql as...
View ArticleRe: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql, and \etc\mysql
by Eric Messick. Thanks for such clear instructions. Checked my server's moodle version in version.php, it's 2014111007.08.When I issue, "select name,value from mdl_config where name='version';" at...
View ArticleRe: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql, and \etc\mysql
by Eric Messick. Is it possible that upgrade to ubuntu 15.04 changed the moodle database to use the ibdata1 file instead of heaps of .ibd files? My fresh moodle on ubuntu 14.10 has .frm files and .ibd...
View ArticleRe: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql, and \etc\mysql
by Ken Task. Googling for that error begets many postings ...https://www.google.com/search?q=mysql+ERROR+1146+%2842S02%29&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8The DB files you have should have been InnoDB.And the...
View ArticleRe: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql, and \etc\mysql
by Ken Task. Adding too ... specifics ... what I think I'd try ...#2Can you run mysqldump on the moodle DB right now?mysqldump -u root -p moodle > moodletoedit.sqlThen drop the database.mysql>...
View Article*correction* - Re: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql, and...
by Ken Task. above where is says:mysql> create database moodle character set utf8 character set utf8_general_ci;should be:mysql> create database moodle character set utf8 collate...
View ArticleBackup redirects to restore page
by Mike Algozzine. After backing up a course and clicking Continue, users are redirected to the backup/restorefile.php page. If they don't have the "Restore courses" moodle/restore:restorecourse...
View Article2.9 course backup seems to stall
by Ken Russell. I am working in a freshly upgraded moodle, 2.9.1+. I have a pretty large course that I need to back up. When I I start the procedure everything works and then it seems to stall at the...
View Article2.9 Course Backup DDL Error
by Graham Moir. I have a clean 2.9+ site with a single course on it. Thought it would be a good idea to back the course up, so I chose the backup option in Course Administration and went through the...
View ArticleRe: 2.9 course backup seems to stall
by Ken Task. In 2.9.x the backup routine is supposed to be using the new tar.gz format for building the .mbz backup. Supposedly getting around the 4+Gig limit. Issues still remain ... but those...
View ArticleRe: 2.9 Course Backup DDL Error
by Ken Task. That looks to be a MySQL error. User defined in config.php doesn't have sufficient access rights to *create* a temporary table. Those access rights are contained in the mysql DB of the...
View ArticleRe: 2.9 course backup seems to stall
by Tim Hunt. The progress bar during backup suffers from the same problem as progress bars during all complex operations.To give a massively simplified example, suppose that doing a backup only...
View ArticleRe: Moodle 2.9: Restore - Error connecting to the server
by Graham Moir. Thanks for replying Emma. Both sites are on Moodle 2.9 and there's no limit on the file upload on the target site.I suspect a timeout too, and I'm looking for ways around that, - the...
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