I'm using Moodle 3.82.
For one of my courses I'm getting a backup size of 765Mb. The course does not have much more than 10Mb of files. It uses videos which are embedded from Vimeo.
I've tried turning off the Include Question Bank option and no difference. When I turn off the Include Files the backup drops to 74Kb.
How can I determine where these excessive size files may be coming from.
Look in each teachers private files if there are multiple teachers ... backup files belong to teachers and when you backup with users you get all user files as well.
Assignments? If students were required to upload a file for an assignment and backup includes users you get user files in the backup.
How large is a no user backup ... leaving all content ... just no users ... not even teacher.
Errr ... 765M isn't excessive to me ... try a digital media course (video/audio/powerpoints that dance/digital photography for 25 - 75 students) ... 130Gig was largest at one time. Command only backups.
Cron job running as it should? There are clean up task which deletes temp files.
'SoS', Ken
No history ... but here is something to do to investigate:
Download the backup ... in a work directory.
tar zxvf [nameofbackup].mbz files files.xml
Will extract just files directory and the map to files in there via files.xml
Open the files.xml with text editor.
Search for your video files.
There will be a hash location consist of letters/numbers for a video.
Looks like:
<file id="1730">
<contenthash>276f7718d18a9b776757c052f2dd85b9b55ccfbf</contenthash>
That hash is the location of the file in the file directory.
Using example above:
files/27/6f/276f7718d18a9b776757c052f2dd85b9b55ccfbf
You'll also see in files.xml the filename.
Looks like:
<filename>Moodlemorphosis.mp4</filename>
So you could copy the file out to some other location to get a real look at it:
cp files/27/6f/276f7718d18a9b776757c052f2dd85b9b55ccfbf /someotherlocation/Moodlemorphosis.mp4
Check your servers DB
mdl_files table search for the file name
select filename,filesize from mdl_files where filename='Moodlemorphosis.mp4'
'SoS', Ken
