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Duplicate entry '1' for key 'PRIMARY' Restoring backup
by Matias Eduardo Bordone Carranza. Hi everybody. I'll describe my problemI have to migrate a moodle 2.3 instalation. I made the backup with phpmyadminin the new server when i try to restore the...
View ArticleSpecifying location to save backup files
by Bob Ridge-Stearn. Hi, I am the admin of a Moodle (v 3,1). Is there a way of specifying a default location for manually created backup files to be saved to?My problem is that members of my team make...
View ArticleRestoring Course with Deleted Users
by Tyler Bogdan. Hello!I administer moodle for a school division's learning online program and I'm hoping to get some help. I'd like to periodically delete the users in moodle that are not using it,...
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by Ken Task. If restoring a backup that contains users for the sake of check grades, etc., why not restore to a local host version .... on a laptop for such a purpose. Or a true server within...
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by Tyler Bogdan. Hi Ken,Thanks for the response but I'm not sure I understand. I've run a test on our moodle server and if I take a back up of a course then delete the student out of moodle then...
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by Ken Task. Your first post said .."My problem is that when you restore a course that includes students but the students are deleted you cannot see any of the information for the students in the...
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by Emma Richardson. If you need the data kept for the students, don't delete them. I think if you suspend them instead, you can still access their data. If you need to see the data for deleted...
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by Tyler Bogdan. Hi Emma,Un-deleting them by updating the database is a workable solution for me. Can I reliably count on all the student information staying in the 'user' table after they are...
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by Emma Richardson. When I have had people delete students by mistake, this is what we have done to fix it and it has always worked. I don't know if there is any time limit (for example if you...
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by Ken Task. I"ve had the un-fortunate task (no pun intended) of trying to provide a Sheriff's department 'forensics' (ie, network and server access/records, etc.) for a student who murdered his...
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by Tyler Bogdan. Hi Ken,I appreciate your take on the situation but I'm not sure a sandbox helps me... Perhaps I'm not explaining myself well enough. Consider this course of events:A student enrolls...
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by Emma Richardson. The data is in the backup as long as you backed up with user data.
View ArticleRe: Restoring Course with Deleted Users
by Ken Task. Is there a 'best practice' ... ever? Don't think so ... too many factors. I'll still contend that restoring a full backup of that course to a sandbox is a better way to go - but...
View ArticleRe: Specifying location to save backup files
by Séverin Terrier. Hi Bob,Unfortunatly, and as far as i know, it doesn't exists in Moodle now. Perhaps it could be a good suggestion of new feature, to do in the tracker.For the moment, i think that...
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by Séverin Terrier. Hi Tyler,For what i know, lines are never really deleted from mdl_user (just marked as "deleted"). But logs are regularly purged from oldest information.What i do is that each year...
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by Ken Task. Funny you should ask this ... been cleaning up a Moodle site (major space issue) that has been neglected for a couple of years now and teachers have been pretty much on their own. As a...
View ArticleRe: The file you tried to upload is too large for the server to process.
by Vickie Anderson. Hi,Any update on this. I am having this issue and I have updated my php.ini file. I get this error now with any file I try to upload, no matter the size.Thanks,Vickie
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Can not restore a course [error/setting_by_name_not_found]
by Ahmad ElGazzaz. Hello,I have faced this error when restoring a course file with two hosting company and AWS and I don't know the reason. it only worked Moodle Powered by Bitnami in AWS and my...
View ArticleRe: Can not restore a course [error/setting_by_name_not_found]
by Emma Richardson. Please turn debugging on and then report back with the full error.
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