Thanks again for all your help Ken.
On the positive side I was able to get all of my course definitions out of the database by creating another domain, copying all the Moodle code to it then pointing the config files to the domain, datadir and database. It WORKED!
The original domain is still failing and generating all the backup files. I put on my php debugging hat and started tracing the code. The actual problem was in a REQUIRE statement in on of the /lib files. This same statement works fine in other installs with the same version of Moodle and PHP. That tells me there is an issue in the PHP install for the domain that's failing. I've pointed my support admin at that...not holding my breath!
The backup is still happening. I've truncated the mdl_backup_courses so that table is empty. Now I did a truncate on the mdl_backup_controllers table. Even though I don't need to anymore, a part of me whats to find the rat in the hole!
On the positive side I was able to get all of my course definitions out of the database by creating another domain, copying all the Moodle code to it then pointing the config files to the domain, datadir and database. It WORKED!
The original domain is still failing and generating all the backup files. I put on my php debugging hat and started tracing the code. The actual problem was in a REQUIRE statement in on of the /lib files. This same statement works fine in other installs with the same version of Moodle and PHP. That tells me there is an issue in the PHP install for the domain that's failing. I've pointed my support admin at that...not holding my breath!
The backup is still happening. I've truncated the mdl_backup_courses so that table is empty. Now I did a truncate on the mdl_backup_controllers table. Even though I don't need to anymore, a part of me whats to find the rat in the hole!