Re: Course restore to localhost hangs
by Doug Smith. Hello, thanks for helping.The error I'm getting is: error/tmp_backup_directory_not_foundI opened the backup mbz file with 7zip and inserted a folder called "tmp" but this didn't seem...
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by Ken Task. @Doug ...In a stock moodle installation, moodle has a temp directory it uses for backups and restores.Check your moodledata directory for a 'temp' directory and inside there a 'backup'...
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by Doug Smith. I do have moodledata/temp/backup with 777 file/folder permissions.Here is the error again with debugging messages. "not zip archive". You can also see that moodle took the backup.mzb...
View ArticleError in Backup Logs
by Mohamad El Bohsaly. Kindly note that some backup files in the logs are labeled as "error" rather than "ok"/"skipped".Any ideas about the reasons behind this error label?
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by Ken Task. Uhhhh ... the two debug outputs aren't the same. (?)At what stage in the restore process did it kick out that error? Can't tell by copy and pasted text.Did you follow the link to 'about...
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by Doug Smith. The link for the error points back to a bug from v1.9 and 2.1. The errors discussed relate to restoring files that are over 2GB in size, which is not my issue. One person did solve...
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by Ken Task. Moodle creates a hashed *directory* then uncompresses the .mbz in that directory ... **not a hashed file**.You say, however, that there is a moodle_backup.xml present ... when you...
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by Doug Smith. I can only use a web based file manager and it doesn't seem to think that the hashed directory is a actually a directory. I think it's seeing it as a file.I will PM you about your kind...
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by Doug Smith. With Ken Task's help, it looks like we found the problem.I think the mbz backup file I was using had been improperly archived. On my desktop the file would un-archive ok. However, it...
View ArticleRestore course to new install - Files not found
by Andrew Normore. Hi all, big problems...We are moving from Moodle 2.6 to Moodle 3.3.2. NONE of the files are working which look like...
View ArticleRe: Security copy moodle2 course eating lots of space
by Andrew Normore. 39gb you say?Our moodle data is over 700gb."Welcome to Moodle"Moodle is a fairly secure system, we haven't had any catastrophic problems that we needed backups for. However, if this...
View ArticleRe: Security copy moodle2 course eating lots of space
by Dan Marsden. We also have a tool called "coursebank" that lets you push your course backups onto cloud storage - this gives a number of different benefits including having your backups stored on a...
View ArticleRe: Restore course to new install - Files not found
by Ken Task. When one migrates a server the original code, DB *and* moodledata are brought over to new server and configured to run ... same version as the old server. If everything working, then...
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by Andrew Normore. Thanks Ken,Thanks for the walk through on the file structure. I might be able to come up some sort of script with this information, to import just the data we need.We suspect that...
View Articlerecover deleted assessment activity with student data.
by Corrie Emery. Hi Guys,we are running Moodle 2.9, and recently one of our file upload activity's were accidentally deleted. i don't know how you can "accidentally" delete something if your prompted...
View ArticleRe: Course restore to localhost hangs
by Paul Raper. Hi Ken, I checked the log files for the server, Apache and otherwise, and there seems to be nothing showing up there. I turned on Moodle debugging, and nothing is showing there either....
View ArticleRe: Course restore to localhost hangs
by Paul Raper. Hi Emma,Sorry for my late reply, I tried doing all this in different places since I have different internet speeds in different locations, and thought that this may be having and effect...
View ArticleRe: Error in Backup Logs
by Séverin Terrier. Hi,You should really provide much more information if you want us to have a little chance to help you!Provide details about you server, Moodle version, courses involved, when the...
View ArticleRe: Course restore to localhost hangs
by Ken Task. @Paul ... let's try another route ...Setup a file system repo.https://docs.moodle.org/33/en/File_system_repositoryUpload your backup via scp/ftp (in binary mode, not ascii)/ or whatever...
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by Ken Task. @PaulServer is Debian so you should have ssh/shell access. Your server is *not* in a shared hosting environment, is it? Login to the moodle and run the server phpinfo link. In that...
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