Re: Bulk Archiving Courses
by Sean Scott. Hi Ken,Can you tell me how to modify the script to use --courseshortname instead of --courseidI'm assuming the $i needs to be modified since course shortname is alpha numeric. Just not...
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by Sean Scott. Hi,I'm also noticing that although I'm using the --destination option in my backup script.. The partition I have Moodle installed on continues to grow rather large after each set of...
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by Ken Task. Hmmmm .... let's see ... we have a 2.6.x and using a script that first came with 2.7.x. While one could type:php backup.php and see the options ... of which --courseshortname=STRING is...
View ArticleMoodle User Restore function Not Working
by Daryl Narayan. I am having issues when I go to restore a user Moodle decides to just hang nothing happens, my screen freezes and moodle crashes. I then need to exit Moodle and restart my browser...
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by Séverin Terrier. Hi,You could have specified clearly you where using the Moodle user restore plugin.If you have the same problem with several admin tools, i would also check for allowed memory....
View ArticleAutomated Course Backups, 2 backups or 1 ?
by Paul L. Automated course backups have a setting for 'Automated backup storage' as follows:'Course backup filearea''Specified directory for automated backups''Course backup filearea and the...
View ArticleMoodle site is doing daily backups at 45gb and killing the disk
por Andrew Normore. Any idea how to gain insight here? Every day at 2am, the disk is full from backing up "Moodle Site", which is the site name.I have to manually delete from Moodledata/temp/backups/*...
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por Emma Richardson. I had this same issue - I discovered that my external drive was disconnected that I was saving course automated backups to and as such the backup files would just stick in the...
View Article[3.4] Automated backups initial run (1000 courses)
by Richard van Iwaarden. Hello!We have turned on automated backups for a Moodle site that has been running for 2 years and has 1000 courses.The initial run is after one month still not finished. We...
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by Ken Task. Two part response ....Install moosh.https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?id=522get version for your MDL version.For info on commands:https://moosh-online.com/Use it's course-info...
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by Ken Task. Part 2 ...In the report of automated backups, check the dates ... especially the next run date. Had a system once that recorded the next run date that was already past ... would have...
View ArticleRe: Moodle User Restore function Not Working
by Daryl Narayan. Hi we dont believe anything has changed on the server side of things as we are the admin for this.Also is there any other things we can try?
View ArticleRe: Moodle User Restore function Not Working
by Daryl Narayan. Hi we dont believe anything has changed on the server side of things as we are the admin for this.Also is there any other things we can try?Is there a manual way to do this via PHP...
View ArticleRe: [3.4] Automated backups initial run (1000 courses)
by Séverin Terrier. Hi Ken,About excluding some courses from automatic backups, i've created MDL-60296, based on this discussion. Don't hesitate to vote/comment.HTH,Séverin
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by Séverin Terrier. Hi Andrew,I think that your problem is related to the front page, with logs.You could have a look at this discussion about a similar problem, and this other discussion to disable...
View ArticleRe: Moodle site is doing daily backups at 45gb and killing the disk
by Andrew Normore. Thanks! Will investigate and follow up this week... hopefully.
View ArticleRe: [3.4] Automated backups initial run (1000 courses)
by Richard van Iwaarden. Hi Ken,Thanks again for the elaborate respons. However, how do you install Moosh? I tried downloading it from the plugin-database. The next thing Moodle asks me is 'what kind...
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by Ken Task. While moosh is available for download from Moodle store, it is NOT a GUI plugin to install via Moodle plugins. It is command line only.One of the reasons for downloading from Moodle...
View ArticleRe: [3.4] Automated backups initial run (1000 courses)
by Ken Task. You don't have to see the years ... here we are in Apr and May ... yet I see in the listing Jan. for some ... well, that's Jan 2019.Think what you need to do:1. turn off automated backups...
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