If I want to clone a Moodle instance as it is (with branding, content, etc), is easy to do? and how?
I asked one of the Moodle partners who host our instance, they said if we want to clone and migrate our Moodle instance to a third party server, they will give us .zip file to download from AWS and then we can put it on any server? But, the question is how to restore the whole Moodle site as it is and launch it on a new third party server? What process to follow?
Thanks
Moodle 3.5
Instructions are here... Moodle_migration
As usual, if anything isn't clear just ask
Well, if you'd read the link....
In order to recover a Moodle site you need a backup of the database (usually an SQL dump) and a copy of the files ("moodledata") area. You can download the actual Moodle code and any plugins again, so you don't need that (although it may be convenient).
Given that, you can copy "moodledata" somewhere, load up the database backup and point your config.php to these locations. That's (more or less) all there is to it.
So, it really rather depends what was in that "zip file". I assume it's the database backup and the moodledata backup.