Hello, I am using 1.9. I downloaded a course (backup format) from the internet and now I wanted to try to upload to my website. I have no idea how to restore the backup file, which directory I should put the backup in? I do not even see restore module anywhere. I saw backup under course.
Thanks.
Hi steve
As an example, you copy the backup zip-file in the folder site files on the frontpage. Is the transaction finshed, you click on restore, but you should first create a new course categorie, now restore and say "create a new course" in that new category.
Thats it!
Andy
As an example, you copy the backup zip-file in the folder site files on the frontpage. Is the transaction finshed, you click on restore, but you should first create a new course categorie, now restore and say "create a new course" in that new category.
Thats it!
Andy
Thanks. the restore link is in Front Page.
after i clicked restore, all i saw is this list:
any help would be highly appreciated ( i am using 1.9)
- Creating temporary structures
- Deleting old data
- Copying zip file
- Unzipping backup
- Checking for BlackBoard export
- Checking backup
- Reading info from backup
any help would be highly appreciated ( i am using 1.9)
Steve can you turn on the debug mode? Block Website-Administration->Server->Debugging
Activate the debug mode, than try to restore the backup file and see if comes any error warning. If yes, copy them and come back with the error warnings.
Andy
Activate the debug mode, than try to restore the backup file and see if comes any error warning. If yes, copy them and come back with the error warnings.
Andy
I'm getting the same thing. Any fixes?
did you see Andy's post above about turning debugging on and posting any error messages you received here?
thanks,
Dan
thanks,
Dan
Hannah and Steve,
I have the same problem as you can see in this thread - I posted it in the bug tracker thinking that it was a bug . The backed-up courses you are trying to restore to version 1.9 are probably 1.9.1+ and not 1.9, so that won't work.
More info about this in the tracker (Thanks a lot, Petr, for explaining why it can't work)
Hope this helps,
Ulrike
I have been having a similar problem with courses I have been moving from 1.8 to 1.9... I was working on a new computer and one day suddenly realized that my Internet Explorer was hanging up looking for a "website" during the back up... I finally traced it down to my "phishing" settings. It was trying to check the Moodle server as a website... When I took care of those settings in IE, I quit having problems with the back up hanging up.
Paula Clough