I'm a moodle newbie, installing moodle for school use. I'm trying to schedule backups, but with little luck. My courses are not backed up.
I managed to back it up only once. I don't know what happened, but, that was the only time that it worked.
Any help would be deeply appreciated!
I have been testing the backup scheduling, by putting a specific time (say, 7.pm), and then, running the cron.php script manual (for now).. I run the cron.php script at say... 18.59:59s and, I get this
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Server Time: Thu, 24 May 2007 18:59:59 +0200 Starting activity modules Processing module function assignment_cron ...done. Processing module function chat_cron ...done. Processing module function forum_cron ...done. Processing module function journal_cron ...done. Processing module function scorm_cron ...done. Processing module function workshop_cron ...done. Finished activity modules Starting blocks Finished blocks Updating languages cache Removing expired enrolments ...none found Running backups if required... Checking backup status...OK Getting admin info Deleting old data Checking courses Skipping deleted courses 0 courses ISEP Project Management Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Project number 1 Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Course Fullname 101 Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Project number 2 Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Introduction to Computing Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Course to Backup Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Backup tasks finished. Running auth crons if required... Cron script completed correctly Execution took 0.904097 seconds_____________________________________________________________
I run it a few seconds later, and I get this:
Server Time: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:00:02 +0200 Starting activity modules Finished activity modules Starting blocks Finished blocks Updating languages cache Removing expired enrolments ...none found Running backups if required... Checking backup status...OK Getting admin info Deleting old data Checking courses Skipping deleted courses 0 courses ISEP Project Management Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Project number 1 Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Course Fullname 101 Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Project number 2 Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Introduction to Computing Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 0:00 PM Course to Backup Next execution: Thursday, 24 May 2007, 07:00 PM Backup tasks finished. Running auth crons if required... Cron script completed correctly Execution took 0.554749 seconds___________________________________________________________
| Project number 1 | 24 May, 17:55 | - | 24 May, 17:55 | OK | 24 May, 20:00 |
| Course Fullname 101 | 24 May, 17:55 | - | 24 May, 17:55 | OK | 24 May, 20:00 |
| Project number 2 | 24 May, 17:55 | - | 24 May, 17:55 | OK | 24 May, 20:00 |
| Introduction to Computing | 24 May, 17:55 | - | 24 May, 17:55 | OK | 24 May, 20:00 |
| Course to Backup | 1 Jan, 01:00 | - | 1 Jan, 01:00 | Error | 24 May, 20:00 |
Note that, the first 4 courses worked .. that one time. the last course was created after the first successful try. Also note that the next scheduled time states 20:00 instead of 19:00. Is this a daylight savings problem/??????? If it is, why is the last successful backup time correct? Also, I've checked that I am in the right timezone.. and my server's on the right timezone too.
Thanks!