Hi,
I need to programatically back up and restore a forum activity.
I am trying to follow the restore process described here https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Restore_2.0_for_developers#Automatically_triggering_restore_in_code but I am getting errors.
I have my backup file in $CFG->dataroot . '/temp/backup/test/' named backup123.mbz, and I want to restore it into course id 456, so I am doing:
$folder = '/test/'; // as found in: $CFG->dataroot . '/temp/backup/'
$courseid = '456'; //
$user_doing_the_backup = 2; // e.g. 2 == admin
// Restore backup into course.
$controller = new restore_controller($folder, $courseid,
backup::INTERACTIVE_NO, backup::MODE_SAMESITE, $user_doing_the_backup,
backup::TARGET_EXISTING_ADDING);
$controller->execute_precheck();
$controller->execute_plan();
I am not sure what to use if I am trying to restore into an existing course, so I go with TARGET_EXISTING_ADDING, I have tried all other options as well (TARGET_CURRENT_DELETING, TARGET_CURRENT_ADDING, TARGET_EXISTING_DELETING, TARGET_EXISTING_ADDING) but all produce the same error. For the folder i tried 'test' and 'test/' and '/test/' and tried adding the exact backup file name as well, all produce the same error. In fact, even if I use the code as it is straight out of the link above and try to restore my activity into a new course (as is the case in the link) I still get the exact same error which is:
Default exception handler: error/cannot_precheck_wrong_status Debug:
Error code: cannot_precheck_wrong_status
$a contents: 200
Someone here https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=347629 had the same error however I cannot message them or comment on that post to find out the exact solution.
Someone here https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=350138 seems to be doing it successfully, I have tried using literally their code, still getting the error above.
Any help is greatly appreciated.