I'm using Moodle 1.9 on Windows Server 2003. We host our own and I'm the "administrator" (who isn't at all sure what he's doing!!)
I've read some on backup, but much of things I find here have a big 2.0 in the top left.
I understand course backup -- that's done within the course and I would think this is something each teacher should do?
I'm trying to figure out site backup. The actual Moodle server is in the IT office in another building. I have that machine mapped to my Windows Vista machine as a drive. I also have a separate external drive on my machine that's to be the backup drive.
If I just drag my entire moodle19 folder from the server to the external drive on my machine, is that all I need? Are all the databases, etc. IN the moodle19 folder?
The moodle19 folder is currently a little over 500 meg and I know this is bringing extra stuff (moodle code, etc) that doesn't need backup, but with this 2 TB external drive, several years of backing up just the moodle19 folder would fit
I've read some about site backup from within Moodle. I can get to that machine through remote desktop but can't get to my external drive from there. Should I be doing a site backup from within Moodle TO the server, and then have the backup software on my machine ONLY backup this?
I set up the server last year and learned how to do courses and things, and this year it's open to all faculty to use. At this point it's definitely being used but not by any means with all faculty (small school, so there's only around 40 faculty anyway....)
Any suggestions?