Backing up and restoring course eliminates gradebook categories and items
by Karla Bright. Hi All,I hope someone can help! We are running Moodle3.1.1+ (Build: 20160811) and when I backup and restore a course the only part of the gradebook that is restored are the graded...
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by Emma Richardson. This has always been an issue with manual items. They attach to the students instead of the course. Restore the students and the grade items will come in. I recommend that grade...
View ArticleLegacy course files deleted in backup
by Yvonne Hamilton. Hi,We are running Moodle 3.1.3 and I have many old courses originally created/used in Moodle 1.9 (with legacy course files) sitting around ready for deletion. I notice as I delete...
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by Karla Bright. Hi Emma,Thank you for the information. I have tried backing the course up with the students, but when I restore it without the students the grade book categories and columns are not...
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by Bernat Martinez. Just one idea, try to restore the course with students, then reset it, to eliminate students and their grades.Hope it helps
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by Emma Richardson. My experience is that grade items have only ever come in with the student and have never attached to the course. I would follow the suggestion below.
View ArticleRe: Backing up and restoring course eliminates gradebook categories and items
by Karla Bright. Hi Bernat,I will have to try it. Unfortunately we sent over the course enrollments yesterday. I will do some testing and see if it will work.Thanks for the help.Karla
View ArticleAng: Re: Ang: Re: Ang: Re: Ang: Re: msqldump from commandline
by Bente Olsen. Hi PeterI've just tried your solution, that is the way to do it!From now I will use$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)Thanks.
View ArticleAng: Legacy course files deleted in backup
by Bente Olsen. I have no experience with legacy backup files, but the course backup settings control for how long backups are kept. See Site administration / Courses / Backups / Automated backup...
View ArticleGreedy time consuming backups
by Bente Olsen. I just moved a Moodle to a new and better web hotel (Linux with Apache, PHP 7 and MariaDB - 8 G RAM/SSD disk). But. It takes hours to backup courses as well as data. I only backup...
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by Emma Richardson. No that is not normal. What version of Moodle?
View ArticleRe: Legacy course files deleted in backup
by Ken Task. In the DB, legacy is just 'label' (for lack of a better term) under the'filearea' column.They are 'files' and while the progress/info you see in deleting a coursereports files it won't...
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by Ken Task. The size of the backup file may not be an indicator of the time and power it requires to make a backup ... as in the case of quizzes.Try this ... courses can be backed up individually and...
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by Bente Olsen. Thanks Ken, I'll try that.Besides, BTW, rsync and course backup also use a lot of memory, rsync it all, course backup almost all. Afterwards it takes quite a while (hours) before the...
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by Bente Olsen. Now I have tried to backup some courses with admin/cli/backup.php. They all went smooth.I tried the largest course and some courses that seem to use to take a long time to backup. In...
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by Ken Task. Ok, trying to determine if the backups were faster - suspect they were. Empty log files normal upon successful completion of backup. Will have to research that 'orphaned' stuff. :\But,...
View ArticleRe: Legacy course files deleted in backup
by Ken Task. Welcome! and thanks for the useful rating! ;)'spirit of sharing', Ken
View ArticleAng: Re: Ang: Re: Greedy time consuming backups
by Bente Olsen. Well, the cli initiated backups ran fast, some of the courses I backed up were the ones that had been very slow during the auto-backup.I have no other processes running on the server...
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