Restore a zip file takes forever

Restore a zip file takes forever

by Axel Yeung -
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I am creating backup of our course using Moodle 1.4 on a rental linux machine with php 4.3.8, apache 2.0.50 and mysql 3.23.49. I can backup a course successfully but having trouble in restore a course, when i try to restore the course(see attachment), it stay at "Creating categories and questions" and even waiting after 1 day, it still there dead.

I made changes to backup/restore.php as I found suggestion there, increase the time out to 6000 and memory amount to 256MB, using Mozilla Firefox or IE 6.0 but still the same.

I have tried to backup a small file(less than 50KB) and it works successfully, I wonder what should I do to solve this?

Many Thanks

-Axel
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Re: Restore a zip file takes forever

by Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) -
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Hi Axel,

I've been able to restore your course. I've attached on screenshot of it in my test server. I'm not really sure if their contents are correct or no (because I don't understand zh_tw, taiwan? wink).

Anyway, the time to restore your course has been extremely long, when it's a small one. Perhaps the encoding/decoding process to utf from tw is the cause. And finally, I'm not sure if your language (tw) contents are really 'convertible' to UTF and viceversa, mainly because the utf8_encode() function used widely, seems to work only from iso_8859_1 charset!

Ciao smile
Attachment course.jpg
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Re: Restore a zip file takes forever

by Axel Yeung -
Thanks Eloy, from your screen shot it looks wonderful, its exactly what I am looking for, would you tell me your server spec., how long the restoration takes, moodle version or any alteration you have made?

Thank you very much

Axel
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Re: Restore a zip file takes forever

by Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) -
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eMac 1.25 1GB RAM (not really a lightspeed machine, the low-end Apple's one!).

MySQL x + PHP 5.0.2 + Apache 1.3.x

Time (aprox.): 1 hour (I'm not really sure about this because I was out while the process was running but sure it was less than 1 hour). If you need it, I'll repeat it today.

Ciao smile
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