Re: backup with user data
by Helen Foster. Hi Doris,You will need to allow the capability moodle/backup:userinfo for the instructor role. Please see the documentation Managing roles and Backup of user data for further...
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by Barb Hall. HelloI recently did a clean install of 2.4.3+ (prior to that I was using 1.9). Because going directly from 1.9 to 2.4.3+ is not possible, I captured whatever course data, questions,...
View ArticleRe: MIgrating moodle using course backup/restore, then changing domain name
by Lawrence Ng. This what I have done to make a copy of our production database over to our development environment (assuming you are using a *Nix platform)Do a database backup using mysqdldump and...
View ArticleRe: Various problems with backup
by Emma Richardson. No, I am talking about the email server settings. I am presuming that you are an admin - you need to go to Settings/Plugins/Messaging/Email and make sure that your smtp server is...
View ArticlePossible to Backup a Course Removing Questions/Categories?
by Jon Fila. There are some courses that I am working with that have hundreds of quiz questions. Some of these courses can take over 30 min. to restore. In some cases, I only need parts of the course....
View ArticleRe: Exclude legacy files from a backup
by Jon Fila. You could unzip the 1.9 backup and remove the course files, rezip and restore that. Then you'll have a course with no files.Otherwise, you can restore the course and then create a new...
View ArticleRe: Various problems with backup
by Barb Hall. Thanks Emma, I've updated the email server settings as you suggested and will see what happens tomorrow. Your reasoning behind the error and lack of email makes perfect sense.
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by Emma Richardson. Hope we get it working for you - let me know!
View ArticleRe: Various problems with backup
by Barb Hall. Hi EmmaIt looks like nothing has changed. I just checked the backup report and was expecting to see evidence of the backup from this morning, but it looks the same as the first...
View ArticleRe: Various problems with backup
by Robert Brenstein. Are you sure that cron is set to run automatically every 20-30 mins? Both, the email not going out and backup not run, could be caused by cron not running on schedule. You can...
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by Ken Task. +1 on checking cron running and another +1 for running cron three or four times in a row to get the backups to kick in. Might have to set the time just a few minutes in the future, force...
View ArticleRe: Various problems with backup
by Emma Richardson. The other posters are correct to check that cron is setup to run automatically. also, I suggest running it manually one time to see if you can clear the error. Watch the printout...
View ArticleRe: Various problems with backup
by Barb Hall. Hi EmmaThanks for the link, I'd actually used it to help me setup my smtp server on Moodle, and rechecked, everything is entered as was suggested.I made several changes to a few courses...
View ArticleRe: Can't restore courses: database reading error (Moodle 2.3)
by Ken Task. What does the link to 'more information' take you to?What are HostGators limitations on the hosting package you have with them? Can you provide any apache error log or mysql log...
View ArticleRe: Backup restore of courses don't work for users nor data
by Rafael Ávila Coya. Thank you, Mary.Well. It seems I did something wrong, but restoration inside the 2.4 Moodle site of backed up courses from that same site works perfectly!I didn't know that we...
View ArticleRe: Can't restore courses: database reading error (Moodle 2.3)
by Mariana Curado Malta. I Ken,Thank you for your email and concern.The link sends me to a place on moodle.org : http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/error/moodle/dmlreadexceptionI turned on Debugging but the...
View ArticlePartial Course Restoration leaves "blank topics" in new course
by Penny Pearson. Hi all, I am trying to restore a course with 20 topics. However, the teacher wants the middle 5 topics left OUT of the new course. I can easily pick and choose which topics to...
View ArticleRe: Can't restore courses: database reading error (Moodle 2.3)
by Ken Task. If your package is limited to a certain number of hits on the DB side of things or the amount of data, that could result in an error that Moodle really can't trap (ie, capture any...
View ArticleRe: Can't restore courses: database reading error (Moodle 2.3)
by Mariana Curado Malta. Hi Ken!You helpoed so much!It is true: it is a server problem!I could find the error log on CPANEL (under Log->error log) and identified the error. Than contacted Hostgator...
View ArticleRe: Can't restore courses: database reading error (Moodle 2.3)
by Ken Task. Welcome. Glad to help. Yup, that's all it takes ... more 'moolah' ($$/Euro's). :|'spirit of sharing', Ken
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