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Attempting Restore: error/tmp_backup_directory_not_found
by Jason Touw. I am attempting to move a course from a Moodle v2.8 server to our new Moodle v3.0 server. We are running on Windows. I get the following error:Any suggestions on how I can move and...
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by Jason Touw. In follow up, I turned on debugging and retrieved the following information:Debug info: Error code: tmp_backup_directory_not_found $a contents:...
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by Ken Task. The process of restoring from a .mbz file first un-compresses the .mbz (moodle backup zip) which might really be a gzip into a contenthash named (the 43f213b8c2569f39aaddf2c780f3e85f...
View ArticleRe: Unable to backup beyond 2GB backup files
by Eugene Matusov. Dear Visvanath--It looks like our students like to attach big videos and pictures. I have no other explanations for these huge backup files. But it depends on class as well....Take...
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by Eugene Matusov. Thanks, Ken.I suspect that students uploaded a lot of videos and photos to make big course backups. It sounds like the only way out is to split course onto many parts for...
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by Ken Task. Using whatever tool you have to browse the database, view the mdl_files table. Contained therein is all the meta data for files uploaded to the system. There is a column for filesize....
View ArticleRe: Automated backups not working and not showing
by Marius S. Hello Ken,Thanks for this information.In the server I had only /usr/bin/php-cgi and php5-cgi, so we have added and php.And now php cli seems to work fine and /usr/bin/php...
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by Marius S. Hello Emma,I have backed-up mdl_backup_courses table and tryed to change 'nextstarttime' timestamp(1452072000) date to: 6th Jan 11:20 EET. I've also set this date in...
View ArticleRe: Automated backups not working and not showing
by Marius S. I have checked mdl_backup_controllers table, so for course backups (type:course) there is oldest records which starts only from 23rd Dec, 2015 (I have also tryed to make backups in that...
View ArticleRe: Unable to backup beyond 2GB backup files
by Séverin Terrier. Hi,have you tried to make backups without logs? Because they're sometimes (very) huge.Depending on the use of these backups, you can try to make them without logs, or without user...
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by Emma Richardson. Flushing the backup_controllers table does not affect existing backups. It basically has the effect of resetting your backup status to a fresh start. So, it should have the...
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by Ken Task. https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=325378#p1307606'spirit of sharing', Ken
View ArticleRe: Unable to backup beyond 2GB backup files
by Eugene Matusov. Thanks, Séverin, for the suggestion. I'm excluding logs but I need to have users. I want to archive the old courses that is why I need to preserve users and their contributions. Any...
View ArticleRe: Unable to backup beyond 2GB backup files
by Eugene Matusov. Dear Ken--Thanks A LOT for the hint. I can open the mdl_files table with MySQL Workbench. Can you help me how I can translate the column contextid into a course number. I want to...
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by Ken Task. Now I'll confess am NOT a certified MySQL DB Administrator ... am 'certifiable' but not 'shingled' to the hilt and don't care to be!!!! LIke you, in a former life, a classroom teacher...
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by Séverin Terrier. Hi,You could try to pass parameters to PHP, to use a lot of time (unlimited?) and memory (4GB?)...Séverin
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by Eugene Matusov. Dear Ken--It is Microsoft IIS 8 (I think) as a part Windows 2012R. Sorry for the omission.Thanks,Eugene
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by Ken Task. Then start 'Googling' for any info you can find about IIS (I can only find info on IIS 7) and it's settings! ;)'spirit of sharing;, Ken
View ArticleRe: "Error writing to database" during Course Restore
by Ryan Hazen. I ran into the same issue with a locally hosted Moodle 2.7.8. Started having issues with course restores from publishers and from an earlier instance of Moodle 2.6, also hosted locally....
View ArticleRe: Unable to backup beyond 2GB backup files: repository problem
by Eugene Matusov. Thanks, Ken. I reposted my inquiry here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=325783 (I'm not sure if my subject "Preventing excessive use of files: How can files to be linked...
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