Course Restore in Progress
by Contact Admin. I have uploaded the course to restore but have been stuck on 'Course restore in Progress' for a couple of days. Is there something else I should be doing? Any help would be...
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by Emma Richardson. Delete the course that has been created called Course Restore in Progress and try again.
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by Ken Task. Before trying again, you might check your apache error logs for something like 'server has gone away' ... that's the DB server and means that max_allowed_packets need to be increased....
View ArticleContradiction in FAQ and Documentation wrt to automated backups
by Bernhard Weichel. https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/Backup_and_restore_FAQ says that unfinished backups are skipped next timeUnfinished - this happens when the backup procedure dies without knowing...
View ArticleRestoring a course with a SCORM package
by László Pauer. Hi,I am trying to restore a course from a 3.0.3 site to a 3.3.2. one. Everything works fine, except the SCORM package is 'empty', the zip file is missing when I check it in the...
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by Emma Richardson. The other notifications are referring to the state of the process. Nothing to worry about.I would suspect that the zip file was perhaps not embedded in the moodle site that you...
View ArticleImport activities
by André Mazzarello. Hello, I made the upgrade to Moodle 3.3 and I am not able to import features and activities between courses. Moodle displays the name of the activities and resources being marked...
View ArticleLost backup
by Paul McCarthy. We backed up two courses (but didn't download) and merged one course into another.We find that some of our files/folders did not get merged from the course that we merged into the...
View ArticleRe: Lost backup
by Ken Task. You will have to work with your DB admin person to find the location of backups. Backups are in the sea of files in moodledata/filedir/ and no longer by humanly recognizable names nor...
View ArticleHELP: Backup an unreleated course is restoring previous activities in other...
by Andrew Normore. Hi Moodlers, I have a very bad situation! Moodle 2.4 and 2.7 both exhibit the same behaviors... SOME TIMES.I cannot repeat the problem on demand, but this is the occurrence:Changes...
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by Emma Richardson. I don't suppose you have misconfigured your sites and they are using the same moodledata folder? You say you cleared caches - you might try manually deleting cache and localcache...
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by Andrew Normore. Thanks Emma, We did have the 5 Moodle installs using the same MySQL user/password. We've updated that now, maybe that's where a wire gets crossed... Good call on manually deleting...
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by Ken Task. Each moodle instance needs separate code, separate moodle data dir, and especially a different DB (DB user/pass could be the same). So when you check out the config.php files make sure...
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by Andrew Normore. Yes, but, does Moodle really require a separate DB user for each install? I've never seen this cause issues before.Do you think it's possible? Does moodle have some sort of global...
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by Ken Task. Run servers with several moodle installs using the same DB server. Since I'm the only one via command line, I do sometimes use only ONE DB moodle user to access the various instances...
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by Emma Richardson. That is just so strange. It was screaming cache to me but if you can actually see things being updated, there about has to be something funky going on in the database somewhere....
View ArticleRe: HELP: Backup an unreleated course is restoring previous activities in...
by Ken Task. Just thought of a config that might exhibit that behavior.2 sites ... Moodle A, Moodle BMoodle A installed first and used the 'defaults' for the database setup ... db name moodle **prefix...
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by Andrew Normore. Hey that's not a bad idea!I'll go ahead and change the prefixes as well. Complete separation in possible ways. We have some external stuff that runs some times too. There's no way...
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by Ken Task. *** NO! *** don't change prefixes!!!! Changing prefixes to a database involves a lot more than just changing the line in the config.php file of a moodle site.Check the config.php files...
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by Ken Task. Just how are you seeing that mod_chapter thang is being changed when 'backup runs at another location'?Am not understanding ...Backups don't change content. So is it the 2.4 version...
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