thom
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Thomas,
I'm having a similar issue.
I first saw it when trying to restore a course from Moodle 1.5 to 1.6.
I get the same error when trying to backup a new course in Moodle 1.6
- Creating temporary structures
- Deleting old data
"An error occurred deleting old backup data."
It stops after the second bullet.
Seems like it's a permissions issue, but the 'www' user has control over the moodledata.
Any ideas, Moodlers?
If it matters, I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.9 Intel Server
PHP 4.4.4, MySQL 5
I'm having a similar issue.
I first saw it when trying to restore a course from Moodle 1.5 to 1.6.
I get the same error when trying to backup a new course in Moodle 1.6
- Creating temporary structures
- Deleting old data
"An error occurred deleting old backup data."
It stops after the second bullet.
Seems like it's a permissions issue, but the 'www' user has control over the moodledata.
Any ideas, Moodlers?
If it matters, I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.9 Intel Server
PHP 4.4.4, MySQL 5
Hi John,
I have the same problem backing up courses in 1.6 to move to the new server with 1.7. Some smaller courses did back-up, some did not - there is not one common denominator I have found yet. We even increased php values.
I even tried a suggestion not to carry over users, userfiles, or logs which was one suggestion - that did not work either.
If you come across any ideas, please let me know - If I find anything else that works I will let you know.
Cathy Maher
Powhatan County Public Schools
I have the same problem backing up courses in 1.6 to move to the new server with 1.7. Some smaller courses did back-up, some did not - there is not one common denominator I have found yet. We even increased php values.
I even tried a suggestion not to carry over users, userfiles, or logs which was one suggestion - that did not work either.
If you come across any ideas, please let me know - If I find anything else that works I will let you know.
Cathy Maher
Powhatan County Public Schools
I'm facing this exact issue, as well.
Any updates?
Thanks!
I had this problem when transferring 2 courses from 1.45 to 1.6. I also had the problem when transferring across from one Moodle server on 1.61 to 1.61+.
When I removed the book module from the transfer across from one 1.6 to the other, it solved the problem.
With the other one, I backed up just the structure. copied the course files across and relinked them. Not a great solution, but it worked.
Hope it gets sorted.
Mike McDermott
I've not found any backup option that allows the backup to finish. I'm not transferring classes between versions, either. Just backing up for disaster recovery's sake. I sure would like to create a course template or two, as well.
In addition, all file permission permutations that I've tried lead to the same, sad result!
This issue, unfortunately, is making Moodle somewhat unusuable for me, as backups are a critical stop on my train to CMS joy.
Any other ideas? TIA.
MTI
Our site is experiencing the same issues.
We've tried running mysql admin, rebooting the servers, defraging.. We're at a loss and unable to accomplish much right now. Any ideas that might not have been posted earlier that have worked for anybody else?
I had this same problem today and fixed it by deleting the files in moodledata\temp\backup. After deleting, I was able to do a manual course backup normally.
I found this solution here:
http://moodle.org/bugs/bug.php?op=show&bugid=4538
And, for reference, it's always a good idea to take a look (and collaborate!) to the Backup FAQ.
Ciao
Ciao
Hello All
So I was having this same problem whit our old moodle site, I want to back up some of the courses and restore them in the newest version of moodle.
It was very frustrating to try different solutions and nothing worked for me until I did the following:
Look within the MOODLE_ROOT/moodledata/ directory and change all the subdirectories (and all the “sub-sub directories” ) permissions to 777 (running apache on a mac server). For some reason most of the folders where 757; once I changed them, the backup ran smoothly and without any problems.
Hope this helps
Juan
By the way, we were given the following error when backing up with maintenance mode on:
An error occurred while backing up course start moodle
An error occurred while backing up course start moodle
Actually "maintenance mode" was irrelevant. The problem was caused because the moodledata/temp/backup directory had been moved off the clustered file system and was inaccessible from one of our Moodle hosts.
Thanks for all these ideas.
None of them work for me.
Has anyone come up with anymore solutions?
H
None of them work for me.
Has anyone come up with anymore solutions?
H
So what is everyone doing regarding backup and using the new verison?
Help
Karen