Re: restore a course with 400Mb
by Nuno Silva. Hi Visvanath, Thanks for you help, the repository did the job now i have access to my backup files. But when i am in the restore process in the final stage i have this message "500...
View ArticleBackups Completing with "Warning?"
by United Electric IT Department. Hello Everyone,We have been running into an issue with our Automated (and manual) backups. We are running Moodle 2.3.2+ on a Windows Server 2003 machine. When the...
View ArticleRe: restore a course with 400Mb
by Visvanath Ratnaweera. Hi You mean, you have the backup file (undamaged) in the server. Now trying to restore it gives "500 internal error". That error itself doen't say anything, you have to get...
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by Ken Task. So what does one see in /moodledata/temp/backup folder?Know (from experience) removing files manually contained in /temp/backup/ have no ill affect on Moodle.Just a guess cause not...
View ArticleMoodle 1.9.19 Recent Upgrade. Course Auto Backups HUGE hard drive use
by Mark Chaney. Hi,I upgraded one of the Moodle's that I am responsible for from 1.9.9 to 1.9.19. Every Sunday we run automated course backups and we keep 2 copies. We have about 700 Meta courses with...
View ArticleRe: Moodle 1.9.19 Recent Upgrade. Course Auto Backups HUGE hard drive use
by Mark Chaney. Ok, doing a ompare between the server that has run the cron script (my dev) and my server using the old code has shown that the new code (1.9.19) has put a lot (66 gb) in the...
View ArticleRe: Moodle 1.9.19 Recent Upgrade. Course Auto Backups HUGE hard drive use
by Visvanath Ratnaweera. Hi There was "the story of the misteriously filling up hard disk"https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=191275. That was for moodle 2.1, may be you'll find a hint there....
View ArticleRe: Backups Completing with "Warning?"
by United Electric IT Department. I have attached the only file that I found in the moodledata/temp/backup folder. If I read through it correctly, it is looking for files in the filedir that are no...
View ArticleBackup won't work: error/activity_task_coursemodule_not_found
by Glenn Pillsbury. Moodle 2.1.2.I've been bitten by this glitch now and can't find my way out of it. Basically, when I try to manually back-up a specific course, I immediate get the...
View ArticleRe: Restore breaking file resource links - am I doing it wrong? (M2.3)
by chris dennison. Hi Julie. I'm experiencing the same problems when restoring courses. URL's that the user has created using 'create link' are copied verbatum. You could try: Create a course...
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by United Electric IT Department. Hi Ken, I was able to run the query on the 'mdl_files' table and did get a bunch of results. However, I'm unsure how to tell what is a draft file and what isn't....
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by United Electric IT Department. Also, on a side note. I created a new folder on my root of C called moodle_backups. I changed the Automated backup storage setting to specified directory and entered...
View ArticleRe: Backups Completing with "Warning?"
by Ken Task. This items:"copy the DB before the server tanked" (as opposed to mysql dump)and"fresh copy of the install and had it reference our restored DB" (without editing the sql dump for new...
View ArticleRestore never opens all the way
by John R. Using Moodle 2.3.2 (brand new fresh install)When I click on restore the new pages starts to open, but under import a backup file, the spinning circular icon keeps spinning forever. If I...
View ArticleRestore error 500 - tied to quiz module
by Mark Jones. when restoring a course from another server i get this error. A required parameter (contextid) was missingMore information about this errorStack trace:line 429 of \lib\setuplib.php:...
View ArticleRe: Restore error 500 - tied to quiz module
by Mark Jones. here is the additional debug when i restore without the 1st week error/error_question_answers_missing_in_dbMore information about this error Stack trace:line 175 of...
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by United Electric IT Department. Sorry. Let me clarify. We had created a mysql dump file and moved it to a network storage location. When the OS was corrupted, we could not recover the inetpub/moodle...
View ArticleRe: Restore error 500 - tied to quiz module
by Tim Hunt. This is probably MDL-30434 or MDL-30018
View ArticleRe: Backups Completing with "Warning?"
by Ken Task. Welcome! Wish I knew an 'easy button', but don't! :|Suggestion?As you 'work' (ugh!) through this be thinking about a site backup strategy. Bet the more you 'think' about it, the more...
View ArticleRe: Restore never opens all the way
by John R. We upgraded the site to the latest version 2.3.3+ It did not make a difference. Again what is happening is that when we select restore or manange backup files, we never get an upload...
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