Automatic backup does not really back up all courses

Automatic backup does not really back up all courses

by Mitchell Gary -
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I have set my 1.53+ installation to perform an automatic backup of all courses. The backup runs faithfully as requested, and I get an e-mail confirming that all of my courses have been backed up. This is only a beginning demo-site -- not a lot of data involved. The resulting zip file is 11KB. It does not really contain all of the course data, and therefore I cannot restore my courses.

When I backup a single course, the resulting zip file is 42KB, and this single course backup really does contain everything. I can restore with no problem.

I conclude that I am unable to use the automatic backup feature to backup all my courses. It really only backs up the "site" -- which is the front page stuff.

Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks,
Mitchell

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Re: Automatic backup does not really back up all courses

by Mitchell Gary -
Perhaps someone could have tactfully told me that I didn't know what I was talking about.

I was looking at the wrong backupdata directory. In fact, the automatic backup feature does backup all courses -- and places the backup file in the backupdata directory of each course.

Sorry about that.

Mitchell
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Re: Automatic backup does not really back up all courses

by Helen Foster -
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Hi Mitchell,

Thanks for explaining your initial thinking regarding automatic backup. It is very helpful to know of possible areas of confusion in order that the Moodle documentation may be improved. I hope you will consider contributing to the documentation, as your perspective would be greatly valued. smile
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