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cli backup.php: Backup completed, BUT the new file is NOT listed in the backup area of the given course

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cli backup.php: Backup completed, BUT the new file is NOT listed in the backup area of the given course

by Krzys Mro - Wednesday, January 18, 2017, 11:13 PM

Hi All,

I hope there is someone who can explain my situation. I'm logged in to our moodle as admin. There is a course containing 5 course backups in Course backup area. The last backup was taken about month ago. For some reason I can't take a backup of that course using web interface - it hangs. I decided to use cli command backup.php and that worked - ended with: "Backup completed, the new file is listed in the backup area of the given course". Unfortunately my backup is not in the backup area. There are the old ones only.

So I went to mysql and queried the files table. I found there the old backups and the new ones but there are some differences:

Old backups:
- component: backup
- filearea: course
- filename: COURSE_NAME_DATE.mbz

New, cli backups:
- component: user
- filearea: backup
- filename: COURSE_NAME_DATE-nu.mbz

Does anyone know why I can't access backups created by cli command?

All the best!
Krzys