automatic daily MOODLE backup software?

automatic daily MOODLE backup software?

by Alexander Holsteinson -
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I just had the worse experience with my hosting provider where they have erased the last month of my MOODLE due to a moodle database connection strings errors that developed last night. What is this moodle database connection strings errors and how can these be repaired or solve?

This hosting provider, HostExcellence, was supposed to have 99.99% reliability and backup data 24/7, but I found out that they are only doing backups monthly and they can only restore my MOODLE to Sept 22!

Is there any software or block that can be loaded into MOODLE application so that it automatically does its incremental data and database backups every day? HELP!
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Re: automatic daily MOODLE backup software?

by Colin Fraser -
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You can schedule your own site backups using your own software, and there is enough around to be able to make it work. The issue I suggest would be what do you do with the data? Automatically download it to an off site box? Need to think about that...

Otherwise you may want to do course backups
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Re: automatic daily MOODLE backup software?

by Alexander Holsteinson -
Thanks Colin I have set up automatically backups every day at 1am but I only have 1 backup version and for some reason it did not ran

I have version 1.95 Moodle

The most critical backup are my students data (assignments, files, etc) so this data is not backed up by the MOODLE application backup?
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Re: automatic daily MOODLE backup software?

by Andrea Bicciolo -
Moodle itself creates backup of courses at application level. You can automate the process using the settings in Administration->Course->Backup. However, you need to download daily the course backups, otherwise at the next crash you'll be hopeless again.

If you prefer to work at file system level and you have access to a ssh console on your remote server, you could take advantage of linux program such as rdiff-backup, wich is very clever in doing server to server incrmental backups, even over slow connections, allowing you to recover at a given date.


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Re: automatic daily MOODLE backup software?

by Alexander Holsteinson -
Thanks Andrea but I am not Linux capable I am a geomatics engineering college profesor so my IT is limited to basically run and configure the Moodle application, so I dont even know how to program in Linux this server incremental daily backups for my Moodle and its user data

Any other suggestions where should I select my Moodle automatic scheduled backups stored?

Need HELP have one 1000 students depending on this MOODLE backup set up
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Re: automatic daily MOODLE backup software?

by Andrea Bicciolo -
In this scenario probably your best option is Moodle automated backups. Would probably be best if you define a backup folder, so all backups will be stored in the specified folder (otherwise backups will be stored in each course file folder) and you can easier download backup files remotely accessing the backup folder.

When scheduling automated backups, you can select what will be backupped and what not, including your files uploaded by students. You can also define how many copies you want to keep, but again, if you do not download daily the backups, a server failure will again vanish your copies.

You may also want to keep into consideration automated backups skips unchanged courses and Moodle cron must be setup properly.
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