Automated Course Backups Failing Randomly
by Joshua Bragg. On 3 of the past 4 nights, one of our automated course backups has failed. It has happened on two different courses (one twice, the other once). The error message has been the same...
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by Ken Task. Not sure the tracker items linked and followed are the same thing.This sort of thing requires some sluething, me thinks ... soooooooo ...IF one were to inspect the questions.xml file in...
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by Joshua Bragg. There isn't a question.xml file in the backup folder. I'm guessing this is because the backup didn't finish. There are also no quiz folders in there after quiz 7290 either even...
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by Ken Task. One of the heaviest processes in anything Moodle is quiz. What, if anything, do apache error logs say upon the failure of backing up your course manually?No questions.xml ... is not...
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by Joshua Bragg. I think we're talking about different things on some of this.To be clear about a few things:This only happens for two courses so far but it is not an every night thing. My course for...
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by Ken Task. So you are doing automated backups every day ... in the morning? I hope wee hours of the morning and not prime time for usage of other courses/system. Failed only on Monday and on...
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by Tim Hunt. Well done for finding that bug Joshua. That could well be the cause.Have you managed to establish an exact time-line for what is happening? That might give some clues, but since you don't...
View ArticleRestored courses aren't overwriting old
by Leticia Dark-rose. Hi,I am trying to refresh 2 courses currently found on our UAT site with the updated courses from DEV. I have been able to backup the course fine and restore it into UAT, (no...
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by Joshua Bragg. Tim, your comment about timelines put two things together in my brain that I looked at recently.Last night, the automated course backups started at 12:50AM. It proceeded rapidly...
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Re: Automated Course Backups Failing Randomly
by Joshua Bragg. Yes I am running them early in the morning. In fact, one of the full site backups I run disables access to the site. Every now and then I have a kid complain that they were working...
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by Tim Hunt. It would be worth looking at the time-stamps of the files that Moodle is deleting. Moodle should only be deleting files that are more than 7 days old, or something. How old are those...
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by Joshua Bragg. I looked at the most recent failed backup in the temp folder and all the time stamps seem to be in line (Sept 1 between 00:53 and 00:56).I've got the cron logging set up to happen...
View ArticleURL links in a restored course
by Tanja Rykovska. Hello, I have restored a course (that I created during a training) on Moodle cloud and it seems that URL links don't work - there is a frame for an embedded link but the content of...
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by Joshua Bragg. Everything went well last night. I'll keep an eye on things and let you know if I see anything else. There was a course that overlapped with the stale temp files task but it didn't...
View ArticleUpload Courses feature & Repositories
by Justin Almeida. When uploading courses via .csv file, one of the options is to specify an absolute path to the backup file.backupfileAn absolute path to a backup file (.mbz) to import in the...
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by Joshua Bragg. The error happened again last night, at about the same time. I've attached a section of the cron log between 00:49 and 1:00 when all the courses have finished backing up.Here is the...
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by Tim Hunt. I think this has got to the point where you should create a tracker issue with the information you have, and link to this forum thread.Possibly the only way to debug it more from here is...
View Articleinternal server error 500 when restoring courses
by Manfred Knabl. When I try to restore a Moodle 2.6.1 (Ubuntu, Apache, MySQL) course in Moodle 2.9 (IIS und MSSQL) then I allways get a internal server error 500 after a long time of waiting,...
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by Joshua Bragg. Tracker issue filed: MDL-51323Sadly my PHP skills are just next to non-existent. Working towards that slowly. I mostly finished CSS this summer with Codecademy. JavaScript basics...
View ArticleRe: Moodle 2.9: Restore - Error connecting to the server
by Graham Moir. Ken, thanks for taking the time to reply in such a detailed way. Yes, this is a shared hosting environment, and yes I'm restoring backup created on that server to the same server - but...
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