Re: new backup format - not available in 3.0
by hya agrawal. Hi,Thanks for your prompt reply !!Although the backup format as you say are now included by default, i still face issue backing up larger courses . I tried increasing maximum execution...
View ArticleRestore of local plugin tables with child items
by Enrique Castro. Hi,I've been cleaning some customizations embedding them in a local plugin. This plugin defines tables to store additional details to core 'course', 'groups' and 'grade_categories'...
View ArticleRe: Should Cache Files Be Backed Up?
by Visvanath Ratnaweera. Not only cached files are not required, it is advisable to delete them. Read "Multiple installation of Moodle on the same server are overriding the admin settings. Version...
View ArticleRe: Restore of local plugin tables with child items
by Tim Hunt. When backup/restore code works, it is really great. When it does not work, it can be really, really hard to work out what is going on.One technique is to find some other code in another...
View Articlehow torestore new forum_Help
by moodle question. Hi,how to restore the news forum from privouse semester course?I don't want to back up the enrolled users only the news forum.I back up it and I check users data for news forum....
View ArticleBackup and restore 4GB+ courses @2.8+
by Kamil Łuczak. Hi,many of us had troubles with automated backup and manual restore courses bigger than 2GB or 4GB...I am working on Moodle 2.8.Experimental settings with saving to other location...
View ArticlePossible to 'backwards' restore from Moodle 2.7 to 1.9?
by Alex Vanden Bosch. As the title says, really - is it possible? :/
View ArticleRe: Possible to 'backwards' restore from Moodle 2.7 to 1.9?
by Mary Cooch. I don't think it is, no, I'm afraid. I am not an expert though, so let's see what others think too.
View ArticleRe: Possible to 'backwards' restore from Moodle 2.7 to 1.9?
by Emma Richardson. No. No backwards compatibility.
View ArticleRe: Possible to 'backwards' restore from Moodle 2.7 to 1.9?
by Ken Task. Both Mary and Emma are correct ... using the Moodle UI's, no. From command line and a text editor with a great deal of re-editing the xml flies of an un-archived backup of the 2.7 on...
View ArticleRe: Possible to 'backwards' restore from Moodle 2.7 to 1.9?
by Alex Vanden Bosch. Thanks for getting back to me, guys! It sounds like something that I wont be tackling any time soon. The reason for doing it was I remember in the course back ups in 1.9, the...
View ArticleRe: Possible to 'backwards' restore from Moodle 2.7 to 1.9?
by Emma Richardson. Why not just change the language in the language settings?
View ArticleRe: Possible to 'backwards' restore from Moodle 2.7 to 1.9?
by Derek Chirnside. Alex, Part of this will depend on what you mean by 'pages'Are they files? word/pdf maybe. Or Moodle pages? Or inside Lesson etc? Or are they section details and labels?Have you...
View ArticleAutomated Course Backups and Server Scheduled task clarification?
by Paul L. Course backups are currently running at 2am, what should I schedule Server Scheduled tasks 'Automated backups' to be?Running it every minute seems like a bad idea as the overhead appears to...
View ArticleRe: Is there a graceful way to shutdown automated backups while they are...
by Paul L. Follow up:I've tested killing the process while the backup is running (disable backups in frontend, kill process on server). It seems to be a decent last resort.I think the remaining...
View ArticleRe: No Backup Logs - Automated Backup Setup
by Theo Yianni. I have set Cron up and ran it.. been over a week now and I still have no backups available to restore from.
View ArticleRe: No Backup Logs - Automated Backup Setup
by Emma Richardson. Can you post a screenshot of your automated backup settings?
View ArticleAdding backup/restore settings in a local_ plugin?
by Enrique Castro. Hi:I'm trying to move hacks in the core of moodle that we have been adding in my university's customizations of moodle into isolated and wel defined standard plugins. I need some...
View ArticleRe: Possible to 'backwards' restore from Moodle 2.7 to 1.9?
by Derek Chirnside. How did it go Alex?
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