Incremental backup and restore of data in moodle

Re: Incremental backup and restore of data in moodle

by Leon Stringer -
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No because Moodle is built on top of a database and there's no way to merge incremental changes from one database into another like this.

I would:

  1. Try to capture all the changes that you're aware of – all the obvious ones and the ones you can remember – into a list.
  2. Keep a copy of the 3.10.1 sites as test sites.
  3. Upgrade the 3.4.9 sites to 3.10.1.
  4. Apply the changes from the list.
  5. As you become aware of changes that were missed from the list refer to the 3.10.1 test sites and apply the changes as needed.

Moodle has a configuration changes report which may help you find settings that were changed when developing the 3.10.1 site.

When making copies of Moodledata (not the database), a file copy tool that copies incremental changes only, such as Rsync, makes copying file data much quicker.

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