Restoring to a new server

Restoring to a new server

by Darren Smith -
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Appols if this is a dumb question smile

I am migrating servers so I have backed up all the courses on the existing server and downloaded the zips. Great.

Now, I cannot see an obvious way to restore them on the new server. I can go to an existing course and then choose restore and tell moodle that I am restoring to a new course (hope that made sense) but although the restore works the course name is something like 'copy of ....' and 'copy2 of ....'.

Do I need to do it this way and rename all the courses manually or is there another method?

tia

Darren

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Re: Restoring to a new server

by Darren Smith -
OK - so it was a dumb question blush

If anyone else is searching for this then you just upload the zips into the files folder and then click on the restore link.
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Re: Restoring to a new server

by Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) -
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Hi Darren, only one comment.

It you are moving your entire Moodle server, I think that a better option is to make a full backup of your "moodle" and "moodledata" dir and db and install them in your new server, instead of using the backup/restore procedure (this is better to move individual courses).

Ciao smile
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Re: Restoring to a new server

by Darren Smith -

Thanks for the reply.

I am actually running both in parallel at the moment so just wish to intergrate the courses set up on the older moodle with the new one.

Darren

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