Teacher can't get to backup download area if restricted from restoring
volgens James Henestofel. I've restricted restoring on my install of Moodle 2.2.3. I'm still allowing teachers to do backups. The issue is that by restricting the ability to restore the teachers...
View ArticleRe: Backup Course and "Site-wide groups" Moodle 2.0
volgens Helen Foster. Hi Gustavo, As you've found, cohorts (site-wide groups) are unfortunately not yet included in a course backup. This issue is reported in the Moodle Tracker as MDL-22148.
View ArticleRe: Restore Causing Deadlock in Moodle 2.3.1
volgens Michael Lewis. What did you change in the code to make it work? What driver are you using to connect to MS SQL Express?
View ArticleUnable to restore course
volgens Ken Russell. I'm having a heck of a time restoring a course that was sent to me. I've read the restore docs (http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Course_restore), searched the archives and looked at...
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Doing it wrong or are backups inefficient?
volgens John Wells. I have a number of very large courses I am backing up. They have 20-40 topic sections and a variety of documents, assignments, forums, et al, in each section in a Windows 2003,...
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Re: Doing it wrong or are backups inefficient?
volgens John Wells. Followup. I finished the backup process. Here's a screenshot: That's a large class but I see no way it can be 5.5GB of material. My default assumption is that I am doing...
View ArticleRe: Doing it wrong or are backups inefficient?
volgens Derek Chirnside. I'll start off with something that may just be a silly suggestion. Download an mbz file, rename it to .zip, and unzip it. See if something is obviously creating the mystery...
View ArticleRe: Doing it wrong or are backups inefficient?
volgens John Wells. The file size that I am seeing in the mbz files represents, mostly, the contents of the files folder. There are variations in the files that get included and since the names are...
View ArticleRe: Unable to restore course
volgens Colin Fraser. This is the date of the version release: <MOODLE_VERSION>2007021534</MOODLE_VERSION> <BACKUP_RELEASE>1.8+</BACKUP_RELEASE> So you are spot on when you are...
View ArticleMDL 2.3.1 Automated backup in Specified Area NOT WORKING
volgens Nilesh Kulkarni. Hi All, I have set automated backup for all course (around 21) as follows 1) Time : evryday at 0100 hrs 2) Backup : course area + specified area. 3)Copies : 2 I have given...
View ArticleRe: Restoring MySQL db from hosted moodle to test server
by Matt Hynes. First, I want to say thank you for your help! I didn't have to edit the .sql dump file to remove the admin account since my account in the .sql dump file had admin rights. However, I...
View ArticleRe: Teachers unable to restore automated backup files (error/invalidrestorefile)
by Donna Hrynkiw. (Moodle 2.2.1) Brian, did you ever resolve this issue? We're experiencing the same problem. The "Download" link throws the error: "Sorry, but you do not currently have permissions to...
View Articlecourse restore
by Ken Russell. I have what I hope is an easy questions. I am an fairlly new admin on our 2.3 server. A teacher sent me a course backup file from another server, she wants me to use it to create a new...
View ArticleRe: course restore
by Ken Task. A 1.8 backup zip might be too 'removed' for the current version to successfully restore. Might stand a better chance at restoring to a 1.9 'sandbox' ... which I'll be glad to offer...
View ArticleRe: course restore
by Ken Russell. Hello, all: It may seem strange to be answering my own post, but it looks lilke I have just been sent a 2.1 mbz version of this file, so I am going to use that. I'm still a little...
View ArticleRe: error/error_question_answers_missing_in_db
by Brian King. Good question. It would be nice if the backup / restore developer documentation got a good reworking, now that things have been finalized. Perhaps you're experiencing the same problem...
View ArticleRe: Scripted (Automated) Bulk Backup and Restore in 2.3
by Rosario Carcò. You are welcome. I will upload the next beta with some code revisions to allow the GUI version to be ready-to-use, out-of-the box, with admin-config-options and the like, as soon as...
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Re: Course Backup fails [SOLVED]
by Helen Foster. For anyone who comes across this discussion thread in a search, the good news is that the problem is solved in Moodle 2.2.5 and 2.3.2 onwards (MDL-28346).
View ArticleRe: Automated restore?
by Lael .... Hi, We are in the process of upgrading from 1.9. Is there a way to use this with 2.3? Thanks!
View Articleemails for automatic backups
by Andrew Golightly. I get a new email everyday which tells me that everything backed up ok. I was wondering if there is a way to specify for the system to only send me an email when there is an error?
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