Flaw in the use of setting "import_general_duplicate_admin_allowed"
by Virgil Ashruf. I encountered a problem restoring a backup from another site in a target environment when a username from the source already exists in the target environment. The problem occurred to...
View ArticleRe: recovery of accidentally deleted courses (v.2.2.6)
by Matt Sullivan. Am I correct in my theory that the deletion of the course deleted the backup as well?Or is the backup not stored on the site and needs to be manually downloaded at time of backup?
View ArticleRe: recovery of accidentally deleted courses (v.2.2.6)
by Ken Task. From what I understand (which may/may not be accurate with 2.2.6 now as that is old) IF a course is hidden and there is a backup in private files/course backups/automated backups that...
View ArticleRe: recovery of accidentally deleted courses (v.2.2.6)
by Matt Sullivan. Thanks Ken, That jibes with what I saw: Upon deletion of the course, (what I now understand to be) the backup file was moved to the trashdir.Fortunately, I was able to recover the...
View ArticleError restoring course : "qtype_multianswer"?
by Susana L.. Hi,I am trying to restore a course from moodle 2.7.9 (mysql) to moodle 2.7.14 (pgsql) and I am getting the following error:Debug info: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: ""SELECT *...
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Re: recovery of accidentally deleted courses (v.2.2.6)
by Ken Task. Now we're off into areas that only you can answer for yourself cause not everyone's situation is the same.Obviously, you don't want to have to do what you did to recover a backup.Here's...
View ArticleRe: recovery of accidentally deleted courses (v.2.2.6)
by Matt Sullivan. Excellent, thank you!Yes, I already had to track down the php.ini settings with the help of my hosting company. They lock out direct access to php.ini (where, as you know, the upload...
View ArticleRe: Error restoring course : "qtype_multianswer"?
by Susana L.. I want to add the following information. If I restore this same backup on moodle 2.7 (mysql) I don't get any error...Thanx,susana
View ArticleChanging the Default Automated Course Backup Filename
by Rick W. I am a new Moodle administrator (running Moodle 3.1.2), and have been setting up automated course backups. That is going well.The Backup filename appears like...
View Articleautomated backup never completing
by Cathal O'Riordan. Hi all,Has anyone experienced a situation where the automated course backup within Moodle fails to complete? I've begun running it manually using the...
View ArticleRe: Changing the Default Automated Course Backup Filename
by Séverin Terrier. Hi Rick,Interesting questions."moodle2" stands for Moodle 2.x type of backup, opposed to the 1.x way it was done...As explained in the course backup documentation, the backup name...
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plugin backup question
by Anderson Hsu. Dear partners, If we would like to setup another moodle in different country, how can we backup our original plugin to another moodle location ? Thanks a lot.
View ArticleRe: Ang: Re: msqldump from commandline
by Richard Trout. Among your questions Bente you asked about the mysqldump error on linux:mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ to database ‘information_schema’ when...
View ArticleAng: Re: Ang: Re: msqldump from commandline
by Bente Olsen. Thanks, Richard, good to know. I will keep it in mind.
View ArticleRe: Impact of migrating without moodledata
by Randy Thornton. As Marcus said, you won't have any files ever uploaded by anyone.You will also lose any custom language strings you have changed or added to language packs. Most importantly though,...
View ArticleRe: Impact of migrating without moodledata
by Emma Richardson. Can I ask why you would even want to do that?
View ArticleRe: Impact of migrating without moodledata
by Ken Task. Can think of only one case ... and it's got some catch 22's .... testing/verifying a plugin install/upgrade would not require moodledata/filedir. Once the site stood up one would have...
View ArticleHow to restore a coursemodule id?
by Lukas Dürrenberger. The previous developers of the plugin I'm now working on, have saved the coursemodule id into our plugin database (I assume for easier access). This seems to work all fine,...
View ArticleRe: How to restore a coursemodule id?
by Lukas Dürrenberger. I figured out a way to do it. I feel if Moodle was built a bit better structured, this all wouldn't be such an issue. After everything has been restored, we go in and find the...
View ArticleRestoring issue
by Narissa Kentfield. Hi,My company has been facing this restoring issue for nearly 3 months. We have been told that we are using the facility in the wrong way, we use this as method of duplicating...
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