Do I have to restore all moodle users first?
No. See precautions response.
I tried to backup a course from the old site. I think something went wrong, the page kept loading but at the end it showed me a blank page. I should see a backup .mbz file in the course backup area, but I don't see anything. Where is the course backup area?
"Where is the course backup area?"
Backups are **built** in moodledata/temp/backup/
If backup fails, might check in that directory with cPanel file browser to see if there is a 'backup.mbz' file there or not.
Backup File Area means in the sea of files ... moodledata/filedir/ - none of the files in there are humanly recognizable.
In this case, think it's best to manually create a directory using cPanel in a web server accessible directory and call it 'coursebackups' ... no folder/directory is named that in moodlecode nor in moodledata.
In the backup preferences, save to that directory.
Why? You can see the files and with recognizable file names.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
I am in:
Dashboard / Site Administration / Courses / Backup / Default Settings
I don't see where to set the backup save path, maybe in Automatic backup settings?
Then, if I set manual, do I have to specify the days of the week? it seems strange that it is allowed to select
if the folder where I want the backups of the courses to be saved resides in the same position as the moodle and moodledata folders, how can I indicate this folder? writing "/ coursebackups"?
P.S. if I wanted to run backups of all the courses in series?
Backup defaults doesn't have a path.
Automated backups do:
https://docs.moodle.org/35/en/Automated_course_backup
Then, if I set manual, do I have to specify the days of the week? it seems strange that it is allowed to select
If set to manual it means you, which I doubt, will run the autobackup script in admin/cli/.
if the folder where I want the backups of the courses to be saved resides in the same position as the moodle and moodledata folders, how can I indicate this folder? writing "/ coursebackups"?
Now we are into basic understanding of shared hosting and the slice of space you have on such systems as well as Linux .... if you do /coursebackups ... the slash in your case is at the root of shaered server - uhhh, you don't have access to that area I would hope.One has to use full paths. Since you insist on nothing but GUI (cPanel), learn your system. Your hosting provider should have tutorials/docs for customers. Your assignment ... find out about full paths in your account on the shared system provided by provider.
Will give one caution about autobackups ... don't select 'keep all' in the setup. Why? You don't have unlimited space and will probably forget all about checking autobackups and space. Run out of space and that will affect users ability to even login.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
precautions - but I see you've already started ...
Check old sites additional plugins. If you have any, on the new server install compatible versions of same plugins.
Assuming old shared site => new shared site in space/memory and other specs of your slice of the shared server.
Might increase default PHP values for time for a script to run, memory a script can consume ... seen in Site admin menu -> Server -> PHP Info.
Check backup defaults on old server. Make sure users are included.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
