We migrated this week from Moodle 3.5.x to Moodle 3.9 and that was a large upgrade for our Moodle site. All went smooth and we made some changes to the upgrade procedure of Moodle and the plugins. Just to share some experiences I'll explain how we did the migration:
- first we upgraded our database to the desired version for Moodle 3.9
- we copied all the plugins and the theme that needed an upgrade to the (web)server
- on the webserver we ran the cli upgrade php script of Moodle, this script also upgraded all the changed plugins and the theme
- advantage is that we don't get timeouts anymore while upgrading plugins from the web-interface, so run the plugin and theme upgrades on the server instead of via the admin web-interface
- our automated backup runs much faster now, we had a first backup run of 2130 courses that took about 6 hours during night
For our maintenance tasks we use Redhat Ansible Tower playbooks and Redhad satellite for software distribution and that works great.
Installing and upgrading help
Migration to Moodle 3.9
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