Re: Backup fails
by Doug Moody. Jonathan,Though you have closed this post, I see Ken Task has been helping you. Ken is a wonderfully knowledgeable poster, and has helped me numerous times (thank yo uvery much Ken)This...
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by Ken Task. @Doug ... Thanks for that ... guess it was a way to say ... stay out and let Jonthan answer ... a polite way. Did some more digging ... much to be discussed with hosting provider ......
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by Ken Task. @ both of you ...more digging found this:Possible work-around ... don't host with them so dunno but from what I read ..might be possible:hostgator...
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by Naaman Fallouh. Hi,What are the course factors those affect its backup process time? I want this to check up why some courses are taking long time, around 2 hours, to be backed up!!??P.S. there is...
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by Ken Task. Actual backup file size can be mis-leading. So one cannot really look at that and say that this one or that course should backup faster.Two big processing parts ... quizzes and...
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by Naaman Fallouh. Yes indeed, the courses took long time don't contain Quizzes BUT a lot of Assignments.Will run the health test ASAP and post back the results.Regards,
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by Andrzej Tokarski. Hi, I have the same problem with moodle 2.7 from very beginning. Every time I try to restore the course - the following info appears: "Thrown by...
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by Ken Task. Don't think Bill did any hacking/correcting of code, but, from his response, corrected either paths or locations of moodledata/filedir in his cluster setup. Do you have a cluster...
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by Naaman Fallouh. I'd run the health test and there were some quizzes with problems but not related to the courses those took long time.Now it's "Healthy", will try to reorganize those courses and...
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by Andrzej Tokarski. Hi, Thanks for your quick response.My moodle version is: Moodle 2.7+ (Build: 20140529)I am an English teacher and I am trying to apply moodle for my school.I make testing courses...
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by Ken Task. First and foremost ... it's never a good idea to hack/change core code unless you know what you are doing. Suggest that, from your description, that the only reason in knowing location...
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by Ken Task. Think investigating why one lost connection to the MySQL DB host is key here. Continuing to do the same thing with automated backups will (if the above isn't resolved) render same...
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by Andrzej Tokarski. Hi,The only one case I was changing php file was changing the path to my moodledata on my www server. Before doing that I was advised on a few forums what to do and how - so I...
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by Ken Task. error/invalidrestorefileindicates your www box doesn't recognize what you've uploaded or linked to or pointed to as a valid backup .mbz file.Due to:"in my moodle neither of uploading...
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by Andrzej Tokarski. Hi,Both restoring methods I mentioned before are:- drag and drop- choose file and upload ( picking up file method) - but not through URLboth failed.There is no problem with...
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by Ken Task. Mybe the resident Windows expert (Osman) will grace us with his involvement here. So, just to make sure any others that read this thread also understand ... you can upload PDF's, Word...
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by Andrzej Tokarski. That's right: I can upload PDF's, Word Docs, whatever into a course using the normal add a resource, etc. It's just backups I cannot restore by any method - .mbz files.My...
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by Ken Task. Scheduled reboot daily?!!!! Uhhh ... Errr ... GRRRRR!!! ... that kinda reminds me of NT 4.0 days, when about the only way to solve issues was to reboot! That's somewhat hard on DB...
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by Andrzej Tokarski. Hi, Happy to inform you, that I solved the problem of restoring my courses from backup.mbz.The problem was in the size of the file to be restored. (the same problem exisetd in...
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by Ken Task. Congrats! Yes, known issue and a tweakie setting but what's surprising is that Moodle didn't report that error.'spirit of sharing', Ken
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