Re: Converting .mbz to older version
volgens Colin Fraser. Yes, and it is very simple. Rename the file to the .zip extension. However, that is not the problem. The problem is backwards compatibility. There should be no reason why it has...
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volgens Zaphod Desiato. Thanks a lot for that quick answer! When one of the two testservers (which I mentioned before) was still running on the older version, backwards compatibility was usually never...
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volgens ben reynolds. There were at least two changes to Lesson in 2.3.2 http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_2.3.2_release_notes Not sure how major they are, but, if they changed the database tables,...
View ArticleDetailed Backup Logs
by Paul Mohabir. When a schedule backup is done the Backup report shows that some course is unfinished. Is there a way to see a detailed log of the backup process for a particular course?
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by Visvanath Ratnaweera. Hi I'm testing some scripting on a VPS. It is not a problem for me to give you admin access to a fresh installation on that server for a couple of days. Send me a personal...
View ArticleBacking up Moodle 2.2.3 so that everything is taken into consideration and...
by Gary Lebowitz. I am about to back up my Moodle 2.2.3 site that I know works perfectly now. But the manual I have been using is for Moodle 1.9., which talks about the importance of making a snapshot...
View ArticleRe: Backing up Moodle 2.2.3 so that everything is taken into consideration...
by Tim Hunt. You still need to backup the same three thigns: moodle code folder, moodledata and database. Within moodledata, the only bits you can safely leave out are the temp and cache folders.
View ArticleRe: Backing up Moodle 2.2.3 so that everything is taken into consideration...
by Visvanath Ratnaweera. If you meant http://docs.moodle.org/19/en/Site_backup that is the wrong one. You need http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Site_backup. Just to mention, backups are useless unless...
View ArticleBackup and restore in 2.3.2
by Fiona Watts. We upgraded our moodle from 2.2.4 to 2.3.2. Things appeared to be working fine. I can backup courses in 2.3.2 and this appears to be successful but I cannot restore into the same site....
View ArticleMoodle Restore fails with "Trying to restore user xxx from backup file will...
by Lakshman Liyanage. I am planning an upgrade of our Moodle 2.13 (running on Xampp+Windows). So I did a fresh 2.1.3 install (Xampp+Windows) on another box. I was able to restore the entire site,...
View ArticleCreating links on restore
by Anna Kalsi. HiOn our site we have a series of Master version of courses. Courses contain a mixture of static resources, books, forums, wikis and lessons. When a new instance of a course is due to...
View ArticleRe: Problem with a course backup of Moodle 2.3
volgens Colin Fraser. m I thought I proposed an answer to this elsewhere...mmm To recap, replace the backup folder fo your Moodle with fresh code. That can sometimes do the trick. Using FTP delete the...
View ArticleRe: Creating links on restore
volgens Colin Fraser. AFAIK, the links need to be absolute in the course, not relative, for the backup to restore properly in this area. I thought they were automatically absolute when created, but...
View ArticleRe: Backup and restore in 2.3.2
volgens Colin Fraser. Could it be that the Book module went from a third party plugin to core Moodle? It was fairly recently this happened so that may be the reason. Do a backup of a 2.3.2 course...
View ArticleRe: Moodle Restore fails with "Trying to restore user xxx from backup file...
volgens Teresa Gibbison. I'm sorry to confuse you - I haven't done this for some time and as mentioned I was restoring from a separate development site and receiving a conflict with my Admin account....
View ArticleCannot backup the course after one file is deleted
volgens Tatazi Tung. I was working on a new course and was able to backup the course in the past few days. But, after I deleted a resource with an image file attached the system failed to backup......
View ArticleRe: Cannot backup the course after one file is deleted
volgens Colin Fraser. Can we have a bit more information please, like version number, environment. What is your database, PostGreS, MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle? This is not a common error, so the more...
View ArticleOptional Folders - Course Backups for Moodle 2
volgens Craig Richardson. Hi Guys and Gals! In a moodle 2 site backup - for disaster recovery purposes would it be ok to leave out the following directories?: cache temp sessions Trashdir Craig.
View ArticleRe: Backup / restore from 1.9.3 -> 1.9.19; no user data
volgens Margaret Richards. I'm still looking for help on this if anyone is out there!
View ArticleRe: Backup / restore from 1.9.3 -> 1.9.19; no user data
volgens Visvanath Ratnaweera. Hi One possibility is your backups are corrupted, either due to the lack of server ressources or the Certificate module broke something. You can check the integrity of...
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