The site news on the frontpage is a forum that is not related to any course. Is it still possible to backup and restore site news?
From within a course the procedure seems to be quit simple but i haven't found a solution for the forum on the frontpage yet.
The reason why i want to do that: I have a moodle installation from which i want to use the site news on a different installation of moodle.
Hi Peter,
I have the same problem as you and I haven't found any solution yet...
Have you found anything useful during this time? Do anyone know any external tool/plugin to migrate forum posts among different Moodle sites?
We have a lot of valuable knowledge through site news forum and we don't want to lose it forever.
Thank you.
Pedro,
You can make a backup of the frontpage course, including the news-forum. This is course number 1. After that you can restore selective activities. I remember that i didn't do that but I entered the posts again and adjusted the dates in the database. Guess that is not an option for you.
Goodluck!
Peter
As far as I know, you should be able to back up your front page; it's just not currently possible to restore over the front page. The problem will be fixed in Moodle 2.9 (MDL-31500).
Thank you Peter and Helen,
Finally the option I chose was to make a backup of the forum activity in the original site, then to restore it in a standard course of the destination site.
After that, I move the posts of the forum directly updating the affected discussions in the mdl_forum_discussions table, from the restored forum to the existing site news in the front page of the destination site. I uptaded the course and forum fields.
This worked fine except... I tried to update the post's attached files in the mdl_files table. I thought that the only field to be changed would be the contextid, but there must be something else to do because although links to attached files appear inside the right posts, when I tried to download them, it fails (file not found)
Does anyone know what I forgot to do with the post's attached files in database?