Backup and restore

Tad

I hope I was not being too pedantic here above.

> I just want to make sure I can restore one course without overriding
> good data for other courses.  I am currently in a "research mode"
> looking into how Moodle would work for us.  This question was posed
> to me during a meeting, so I'm just trying to understand the backup
> system moodle has in place. 

Hmm...Under normal circumstances there should be no problem. You can restore courses as new courses and that should not effect any other course.

If in doubt then one can restore suspect courses to a test moodle installation (you can of course have as many installations as you like, including on your laptop).

In the past I have had problems with my database when I have mixed Japanese character encoding sets. This is a very strange, avoidable and ill-advised thing to do. But *perhaps* if you were to restore a backup made in another encoding to your site then this might have ill affect upon other courses.

Tim