Restore of large courses failing - urgent help needed

Restore of large courses failing - urgent help needed

by Scott Cotterell -
Number of replies: 7

Dear all,

I am transferring courses between moodkle servers and am having difficulty when restoring large course basically anything over 32Mb. It errors with an ID parameter message.

Is there anyway around this. I am desperately trying to get our new moodle box ready for the new academic year and would love to get some urgent assistance in this matter.

with thanks

Scott

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Re: Restore of large courses failing - urgent help needed

by Ângelo Rigo -
So in your php.ini configuration is allowed more than 32MB por max_post_size and upload_max_filesize ?
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Re: Restore of large courses failing - urgent help needed

by Scott Cotterell -
i havent changed the config. So should I alter the config file to increase the file size
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by Howard Miller -
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Yes - the default is only 2MB. Make it bigger, see

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Maximum_upload_file_size_-_how_to_change_it.3F

You may also need to increase the maximum execution time and the amount of memory PHP can consume; restore is a big resource hog. See:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Fatal_error_allowed_memory_size_exhausted._How_do_I_increase_my_php_memory_limit.3F
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Re: Restore of large courses failing - urgent help needed

by Jesus Picornell Alsina -
Hello I have a similar problem, when I restore a course, the restore process stop when create course modules with a error like this: Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated ...
I have changed the parameters like says last message but the problem is not solved.
But if I install a moodle server in my personal computer using windows packages I can restore the course without problem.

Any idea? Thank you.


Jesus
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Re: Restore of large courses failing - urgent help needed

by Jesus Picornell Alsina -
Hello, I have changed the PHP configuration using cPanel in my web server (bluehost.com), now I am using PHP5 FastCGI and I can restore de course without problem.


Thank you.


Jesus.
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Re: Restore of large courses failing - urgent help needed

by Neil Spurgeon -

Hi Jesus

I assume cPanel and PHP5 FastCGI are Linux tools since I've never heard of either - unfortunately I am using Windows and IIS but thanks for the info

Neil

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Re: Restore of large courses failing - urgent help needed

by Simon Fraser -
Hi Jesus,

Followed your tip and it worked like a charm. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks
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