Re: Where is the backup stored?
by Roberto Palmer Navarro. I am restoring the v1.9 courses in the new v2.5. When the system ask me for the backup, I examine in mi pc and I upload the file. Finally, when I have finished I'd like to...
View ArticlePrevent restores without preventing backups
by Kevin Wiliarty. I would like to be able to prevent teachers from restoring courses so that they do not accidentally blow away existing user data such as submitted assignments, grades, etc., but I...
View ArticleRe: Restoring course timed out in Moodle 2.5
by David Ha. PHP error logs has the following entries:[23-Jul-2013 15:17:53 America/Chicago] calculating controller checksum 785ee9db90e866bdf00c94f61793611a[23-Jul-2013 15:18:04 America/Chicago]...
View ArticleRe: Restoring course timed out in Moodle 2.5
by Emma Richardson. Could your database be timing out? Have you tried clearing out the controllers table and starting again? Grasping at straws but I know that I have had trouble with the...
View ArticleRe: Bulk backup and restore
by Chris Chapman. what plugin did you use for category level backup?- im just exploring automated backup courses- trying to get it to write to a directory outside of www- not working at mo.
View Article2.5.1 Automated Backup help
by Chris Chapman. Hi all, we've just setup a new moodle production site running 2.5.1, ready for new academic year- ive populated it and just testing backup solutions- wanting to use automated course...
View ArticleBackup moodle courses on an external disk
by Irith Herman. What is the Cron command for backup moodle courses on an external disk?My Administrator doesn"t know how to write it???
View ArticleCourse Import/Restore error
by Isidora K.. Hello!I have moodle 2.5.1+ installed. I created a course named Course A with 5 topics which only have title and description. I tried to import these topics to Course B but I get the...
View ArticleRe: Backup moodle courses on an external disk
by Emma Richardson. You don't need to write a cron command specific for this - setup automated backups within Moodle and reference the external disk there (make sure that your server has a path to it)...
View ArticleRe: Course Import/Restore error
by Isidora K.. I turned on debugging developer mode and tried import again...I got the following... No idea what this means however... Debug info: Error code: restore_path_element_missingmethodStack...
View ArticleRe: Course Import/Restore error
by Helen Foster. Hi Isidora,It sounds as though the problem is caused by the add-on question type Reverse pattern match. Please see Tim's comments in the Plugins directory entry...
View ArticleRe: Bulk backup and restore
by Mark Pearson. Chris,If you're wanting to auto backup to a dir outside the www root (good idea by the way) make sure that it has write permission for the Apache process (eg chown user:www backupdir...
View ArticleRe: 2.5.1 Automated Backup help
by Mark Pearson. Check out this Tracker issue -- MDL-37181I do know that it hadn't got fixed for 2.4.5 and it's quite possible that it didn't get fixed for 2.5. You can easily scan the code to see...
View ArticleRe: Restoring course timed out in Moodle 2.5
by David Ha. how do you clean out the controller tables
View ArticleRe: Restoring course timed out in Moodle 2.5
by Emma Richardson. In the database, find the table, mdl_backup_controllers and remove all records. Back it up first just in case but I have done this multiple times with no problem.
View ArticleRe: Restoring course timed out in Moodle 2.5
by David Ha. Thanks. I will try this on a dev server and let you know the result
View ArticleOne course this summer becomes two individual instances of the same course...
by Cris Fuhrman. This fall, I need to give TWO instances of the course I developed this summer. Each instance (I will call a group, some universities call them sections) will have the same content...
View ArticleCannot Restore Large Courses
by Nick Schroeder. Greetings everyone. I’m having an issue restoring fairly large courses from a different Moodle site. When I attempt to restore the course (as a new course or into an existing) it...
View ArticleRe: Restored course has no grades on gradebook
by Mark Pearson. Christos,You have to create the backup with student user accounts and their grades enabled. The grades won't get into the backup file unless there are user accounts to associate them...
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