Re: Moodle 2.9: Restore - Error connecting to the server
by Graham Moir. Actually, where is that setting to allow compression?Moodle docs says"Backing up courses larger than 4GBSite administrators can enable a compression format for .mbz files (internally...
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by Emma Richardson. Most of us are wondering why the Experimental is experimental because it is actually a far better format and works much better!!
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by Ken Task. Compression is only done during the backup. 2.9 has that as default now.See:https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/File_system_repositoryThe only way to avoid download from one Moodle server and...
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by Graham Moir. Ken thank you, this is very useful indeed.The File System repository is great if you can do the copy yourself on the server, but is also the answer to the question of how to make use...
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by Graham Moir. Ken has confirmed that in 2.9 it isn't experimental any more and is the default !
View ArticleRe: Moodle 2.9: Restore - Error connecting to the server
by Graham Moir. I hadn't missed anything. The documentation is slightly out of date and Ken has confirmed that in 2.9 there is no such compression setting because it is now the default.
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by Ken Task. If you provide information concerning your setup ... remotely hosted, shared system (also provide hosting provider name), etc. then answers could be more specific or at least find, for...
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by Ken Russell. I have looked into this a bit further. It turns out that none of the courses will back up, not just the big ones. They always stall in the last few % of the process, the process just...
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by Ken Task. Looks like Linux (Ubuntu) and you have command line access .... Good!How much disk space do you have free?Let's try taking Apache out of the loop with backup.You can safely remove all...
View ArticleVery slow restore 2.8
by Shaun Tyson. I have a course I'm trying to restore that has a large question bank. Restoring the course takes over 4 hours. if I exclude the question bank the course can be backed up and restored...
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by Scott Krajewski. I wish I had a solution but I do not. We are struggling with large question bank restores as well -- though not as terrible as 4 hours! We feel your pain though.We recently found...
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Re: 2.9 course backup seems to stall
by Ed Burt. Hi Ken and everyoneFirst post on Moodle forums.... thanks to everyone for the advice across so many topics!Quick question on backups.We're using Moodle 2.9 on hosted service. Course...
View ArticleRe: *correction* - Re: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql,...
by Eric Messick. I'm mulling through this...thanks again. A bit more info/clarity on what I recovered during the mess up going to Ubuntu 15. In var/lib/mysql...moodle folder with only .frm files and...
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by Ken Task. First, pardon the length of this ... answer is not so simple. :\Second ... am by no means the foremost expert on the backup process, have just had to deal with it (like you) and have...
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Re: 2.9 course backup seems to stall
by Ken Task. Am having to work on this very thing this AM and just discovered a little thing to help see what's going on in the build area of the backup.In moodledata/temp/backup/while watching Moodle...
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by Ed Burt. Thanks for that - lots to be working through from a diagnosis/resolution pov.But in essence, outside of solving the root cause, it's OK to just delete the contents of the temp/backup...
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by Ken Task. Yes, removing files in /moodledata/backup/temp/ will free the space up and there shouldn't be a reference to that file in the mdl_files table ... didn't finish. Of course, am not the...
View ArticleRe: *correction* - Re: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql,...
by Ken Task. In /var/lib/mysql/ is there a mysql_upgrade_info file?cat mysql_upgrade_infowhat does that render?What does: mysql -V display?Something like this?mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.44, for...
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by Eric Messick. FULL RECOVERY!!!--I can't believe it.Kept getting database errors re: timing out and other issues due to knowing nothing about DBs...so did a lot of experimenting. I used all the help...
View ArticleRe: *correction* - Re: Restore with only moodle, moodledata, \var\lib\mysql,...
by Ken Task. Congrats! Know that it's been an 'unpleasant' learning experience but you've internalized much in a short time and learned the most important lesson of backing up Moodle the easiest way....
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