Re: Back-Up File Too Large
by Giancarlo De Pol. Thank you Ken and Przemek,formulas are not converted to images in backups: that is done on the fly by the TeX filter, when the page is requested. Images of (already requested)...
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by Przemek Kaszubski. Dear Giancarlo,I don't think I understand precisely your case - I'm still experimenting with an uprade of our production site...I think you need to verify that all the quizzes...
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by feida kila. I've developed a certificate plugin from certificate and simplecertificate plugins, mixing their funcionality. Now I'm trying to modify the backup restore funcionality of the plugin,...
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by josh love. Hey Ken,I cleared out the failed back-ups, but I am still not able to restore the course. I am however able to restore other courses. I have looked through the moodle_backup.xml file,...
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Re: Back-Up File Too Large
by josh love. No worries Przemek, the weird thing was that none of these files were being used within the course. So deleting them should have no effect on the back-up/restore process. I made a copy...
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by josh love. Also, I went through and cross-checked the files.xml with the files folder. I was able to locate two <files> in the .xml sheet that wasn't in the files folder. Can I go into...
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by Ken Task. An assignment is an activity. Those could be old version assignments turned in by students and the 400 folders are student ID numbers with the contents being the files that were...
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by Ken Task. Ok, you've changed the extension from .mbz (which stands for moodle backup zip) to .zip and unzipped. Right?One could remove the references in the .xml file and also make sure there are...
View ArticleRe: error/cannot_finish_ui_if_not_setting_ui
by panagiotis karageorgos. My solution came with this post https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=255506If this can be helpful...
View ArticleRe: VERY slow restore in V2.6
by Zac Mussatt. Though I hate to bump an old topic, I too am finding that my restores take a long time in 2.6. Unfortunately, I have no good comparison, as my courses are coming from my moodlerooms...
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by josh love. I was able to edit the changes in the xml and rezip it as a .mbz. I switched around the command line a bit. I used:zip -r somebackupfile.mbz *The one you gave me was only zipping the...
View ArticleRe: Moodle 2.6 restore never finishes
by Gerald Grow. Thanks for the suggestion. However, I restore more than three dozen courses, so I can't use a workaround.I'll have to stay with Moodle 2.5 until this problem gets fixed.
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by Ken Task. Oops ... sorry bout that ... giving you in-correct command. :\In moodledata/temp/backup/ there might be some clues. Moodle uses that directory to unzip into a hashnamed folder consisting...
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by Zac Mussatt. I am suspecting that the issue has to do with how 2.6 imports question banks. I have noticed that the worst courses to bring in are the ones with large amounts of quizzes and question...
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by Zac Mussatt. So I turned on mysql logging and can see that this big pause at the end is when it is bringing in question bank questions. I have also noticed that it is defiantly courses with...
View ArticleRe: VERY slow restore in V2.6
by Neil Simon. I found that it took over 3 hours to restore a modest course. See MDL 44813 (https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-44813) for more info and access to a profiled run.I have had this...
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by Zac Mussatt. I poked around the bug tracker yesterday, and it seems that this is a known bug. From what I can understand, it has to do with how questions are entered into the database. It's going...
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by josh love. Hey Ken, First off, thanks for all of your help in this matter. It's been a long process.I checked the log in the temp/backup/randomlettersandnumbers folder and it doesn't tell me...
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by Ken Task. You've found your problem ..."Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded"One must increase max_execution_time in the configuration of php (php.ini)I see by information...
View ArticleCan't backup Front Page Settings course
by David Rogers. Hello,All my other courses backup just fine, but I'm unable to backup my Front Page Settings course (either manually or via automated backup). With debugging turned on, I get the...
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