Alain Raap

Have you all seen this checkbox in the automated backup settings? This is a new setting that I haven't seen before in Moodle 3.5.x, maybe in a later version it's already included?

backup | backup_auto_files

When it's checked, all the course files (in moodledata) are also included in the backup. I haven't taken a further look at this point yet, but I'm going to test our new upgrade with and without this setting checked to see the difference and if more data is stored after the automated backup.

Irith I upgraded from 3.5.13 to 3.9.1 with a test and that went smoothly. Did you also upgrade your database or wasn't that necessary?
Do you use certain plugins that need to be upgraded ? We had problems with Kaltura, and after upgrading the plugins our problem was
solved.

We haven't looked any further at h5p in Moodle 3.5. We'll take a further look at it in Moodle 3.9.

How was the performance in your sandbox after upgrading to Moodle 3.9? Did you see an improvement compared to Moodle 3.5? And did you also upgrade your other infra components like Apache (or Nginx), Redis, PHP and php-fpm?

Indeed, it was just a minor problem that was easily solved, only I had to install the mariadb-server-utils package for MariaDB to run the mysql_upgrade tool.

The automated backup script we'll test when we are going to migrate to the new version. We'll see about the performance then.

About H5P that is part of the Moodle core now, I tested the plugin in our 3.5.x version and had to install the .h5p files manually because it isn't possible to download them from the internet. I saw only a few .h5p functions were installed in the core release, is that right?

For the MariaDB upgrade, the system tables were changed in the new version and several attributes had to be resized with mysql_upgrade. After the upgrade of the system tables the errors were gone and the database was running without problems.

Are the automated backup scripts still the same version? I was curious if this part of Moodle would be redesigned, it's an important part of the Moodle administration software. With larger sites or a large number of courses the automated backup script takes a long time to run (our script runs about 10 hours for 5000 courses). Our largest course takes 9 hours for the backup process.