Backup and restore

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Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
Restore big Course which where uploaded to the server by ftp	Irith Herman 6 Aug 2020	Irith Herman 6 Aug 2020	0
Restore stops, no error messages.	Stan Shap 4 Aug 2020	Stan Shap 4 Aug 2020	0
backup users and video protected	Alessandro Erre 23 Jul 2020	Acqua Alta 2 Aug 2020	4
Asynchronous restore - no error messages	Howard Miller 30 Jul 2020	Howard Miller 1 Aug 2020	1
The backup of a course download with 0 bytes.	Francisco Gómez 20 Jun 2020	Francisco Gómez 1 Aug 2020	8
Streamline/speed up Restore process by adding one button	Nathan Lind 27 Jul 2020	Nathan Lind 27 Jul 2020	0
Grade Categories/Weights disappear when backup is restored	William Hunter 22 Jul 2020	William Hunter 22 Jul 2020	0
Course copy fails, backup fails	Brendon Hatcher 15 Jul 2020	Brendon Hatcher 15 Jul 2020	0
[3.9] Mid-year previous year / temporary course restore	Thomas Renard 4 Jul 2020	Ken Task 8 Jul 2020	3
copy a large .mbz to the local moodle	Andreas Kieninger 8 Jul 2020	Andreas Kieninger 8 Jul 2020	2
After resetting course, assignfeedback_editpdf is full	Zigor Astarbe 7 Jul 2020	Zigor Astarbe 7 Jul 2020	1
Automated backup file location	Gabriel Vasilescu 1 Jul 2020	James Steerpike 4 Jul 2020	5
[3.7] Maximum file size for restoring course	Richard van Iwaarden 18 May 2020	Richard van Iwaarden 27 Jun 2020	11
[3.7] Extract course backup files from moodledata	Marius S 15 Jun 2020	Ken Task 25 Jun 2020	3
Invisible automated course backups	Dominic Myers 12 Jun 2020	Dominic Myers 24 Jun 2020	4
Cloned Moodle-Server redirects to old URL	Niclas G 19 Jun 2020	Niclas G 22 Jun 2020	2
Automated course backups	Madelyne de Bruin 15 Jun 2020	Madelyne de Bruin 15 Jun 2020	4
[3.7]Course backup process no longer working	Richard van Iwaarden 29 Oct 2019	Richard van Iwaarden 14 Jun 2020	4
"Automated backup status" emails - How to enable?	Acqua Alta 11 Jun 2020	Acqua Alta 11 Jun 2020	2
Report logins and logouts	Dino Farese 9 Jun 2020	Ken Task 9 Jun 2020	4
Missing saved draft	Nitin Yalamanchali 8 Jun 2020	Nitin Yalamanchali 8 Jun 2020	0
Moodle size is too large	praveen kota 14 Aug 2019	Nelson C 1 Jun 2020	5
Strange error while course restore	Doug Henner 27 May 2020	Ken Task 27 May 2020	1
Import course data from one exact course	Andrej Stančík 25 May 2020	Emma Richardson 26 May 2020	1
Serialized backup controller is too large	Peter Miller 23 May 2020	Peter Miller 23 May 2020	1
Move students to another course	José Luis Vita 22 May 2020	Emma Richardson 22 May 2020	1
Redirect to Error Page During Course Restore	Megatrend Solution 28 Apr 2020	Megatrend Solution 14 May 2020	1
Automated backups too long - backup half of them (even or odd)?	Séverin Terrier 6 May 2020	Visvanath Ratnaweera 13 May 2020	12
Make exact duplicate of the course	Asko Pesola 10 May 2020	Asko Pesola 10 May 2020	1
Logs that show whether Activity data was reset?	Jack Murray 1 May 2020	Séverin Terrier 5 May 2020	1
Automated backup setup can't write in mounted folder (centos)	Mirko Đukić 29 Apr 2020	Visvanath Ratnaweera 4 May 2020	3
Course backups - include logs or not	Pedro Martins De Torre 29 Apr 2020	Acqua Alta 2 May 2020	2
Backup via CLI	Gabriel Fernández 24 Apr 2020	Ken Task 29 Apr 2020	7
Rare backup restore error when connecting server	David Delgado 27 Apr 2020	Ken Task 28 Apr 2020	3
Restore Course from cli using admin/cli/restore.php	Lazaros Sotiriadis 8 Dec 2019	Séverin Terrier 24 Apr 2020	53
Backup a large course is not working	Denis Perciliano 24 Apr 2020	Denis Perciliano 24 Apr 2020	0
importing without changing anything in the target course	Ahmad Amer 23 Apr 2020	Ahmad Amer 23 Apr 2020	0
Does automated backups script handle files of deleted courses	Nadirshah Ferozepurwalla 20 Apr 2020	Nadirshah Ferozepurwalla 20 Apr 2020	0
Automated backups: Maximum number of backups kept	Marius S 29 Mar 2020	Marius S 13 Apr 2020	4
Common Cartridge Backup issue	Chris Nelson 8 Apr 2020	Colin Fraser 9 Apr 2020	1
Restore Error	Tim F 7 Apr 2020	Tim F 7 Apr 2020	0
Unable to back up course in ver 2.7	Bruce Wilbee 4 Apr 2020	Ken Task 4 Apr 2020	3
Error during restore	Russell Thomson 3 Apr 2020	Russell Thomson 3 Apr 2020	2
re-located the path of course backup data to another server	Eno TV 24 Mar 2020	Mirko Đukić 31 Mar 2020	7
Automated Backups are taking more time to create	Alain Raap 24 Mar 2020	Alain Raap 27 Mar 2020	2
Error 1412: Table definition has changed	Bente Olsen 24 Mar 2020	Bente Olsen 24 Mar 2020	0
Error while importing translated course	Jahanzaib Chishti 24 Mar 2020	Jahanzaib Chishti 24 Mar 2020	0
Course Backup Error Unknown Column in mdl_ltiservice_gradebookservices	David McMurtry 22 Mar 2020	Matteo Scaramuccia 22 Mar 2020	1
Error when making course back up: "error/cannot_finish_ui_if_not_setting_ui"	María Gonzalez 20 Mar 2020	Ken Task 20 Mar 2020	1
Moodle 3.6- Restore error "Trying to restore user XXXX from backup file will cause conflict"	Aarthi Ramesh 11 Mar 2020	Aarthi Ramesh 11 Mar 2020	0
How to import old log backup	Kelvin Ma 4 Mar 2020	Thorsten Bartel 5 Mar 2020	2
backup/restore of course image	Scott Krajewski 29 Feb 2020	Scott Krajewski 2 Mar 2020	2
Manually clearing automated backup status of RUNNING	Bobby Siegfried 26 Feb 2020	Ken Task 28 Feb 2020	12
Backup create empty entry (filename=".") in mdl_files table	Nicolas Dalpe 26 Feb 2020	Ken Task 28 Feb 2020	3
error/AJAX commands.php: Bad slot.....	James Roberts 26 Feb 2020	James Roberts 26 Feb 2020	0
Probs with course backups	Doug Henner 13 Feb 2020	Doug Henner 13 Feb 2020	0
Auto Backup file download	Chris Swaffield 13 Feb 2020	Chris Swaffield 13 Feb 2020	0
Error email from root	April Hayman 13 Feb 2020	Visvanath Ratnaweera 13 Feb 2020	1
Automatic Backup Override for a Single Course	Darren Foulds 30 Jan 2020	Séverin Terrier 4 Feb 2020	1
Moodle does not restore IMSCC 1.2 backup.	Diego Mejía 17 Jan 2020	Stephen Bourget 18 Jan 2020	1
File system repo files related activities empty upon restore or import	Louisa van der Linden 13 Jan 2020	Louisa van der Linden 15 Jan 2020	3
2.7.20 course restore to 3.6.7 enrolled users and user data missing	Chris Loweth 6 Jan 2020	Ray Hinton 10 Jan 2020	5
Moodle temp/backup folder keeps consuming disk space	Hosein Naseri 1 Feb 2018	Ijaz Hussain 7 Jan 2020	38
Restoring course that was deleted - HELP!	Mor P 4 Jan 2020	Mor P 5 Jan 2020	5
Who gets the report of the automated course backup? Can I change that?	Visvanath Ratnaweera 16 Aug 2019	Visvanath Ratnaweera 20 Dec 2019	5
Error 404/URL on Backup/Restore/Import button click	Wilmari van der Merwe 13 Dec 2019	Wilmari van der Merwe 13 Dec 2019	0
"You can only restore front page backups on the front page"	Emil Isaac 9 Dec 2019	Emma Richardson 12 Dec 2019	3
Off site backups on a zero budget	James Steerpike 10 Dec 2019	James Steerpike 10 Dec 2019	0
Course restore via moosh fails	Simon Brock 5 Dec 2019	Simon Brock 5 Dec 2019	0
Restore problem	Russell Thomson 2 Dec 2019	Ken Task 5 Dec 2019	16
Database dump - activity tags missing	Louisa van der Linden 29 Nov 2019	Ken Task 30 Nov 2019	1
Automatic Backups Not Working - No History Visible	アンドリューガリソン 26 Nov 2019	アンドリューガリソン 28 Nov 2019	8
Back up issue - Unfinished	Bianca Grin 21 Nov 2019	Séverin Terrier 21 Nov 2019	2
Large course backup and restore to another platform	Lazaros Sotiriadis 20 Nov 2019	Lazaros Sotiriadis 20 Nov 2019	0
Done with backup/restore	Aviation Safety (Keanu) 11 Nov 2019	Aviation Safety (Keanu) 14 Nov 2019	16
Multiple Top categories created during upgrade to 3.5.3	Chris Marsh 29 Oct 2019	Séverin Terrier 5 Nov 2019	3
D2L to Moodle quizbank conversion	Matt Polaniecki 17 Oct 2019	Visvanath Ratnaweera 5 Nov 2019	1
Course backup taking days to complete (3.6)	John Andre 3 Nov 2019	Visvanath Ratnaweera 4 Nov 2019	3
backup_auto_failed_on_course because Exception: directory_not_exists .../temp/backup/courseid/course	David M 31 Oct 2019	David M 1 Nov 2019	2
Course restore via moosh fails	Thor Pfosten 30 Oct 2019	Ken Task 30 Oct 2019	1
The file you tried to upload is too large for the server to process.	John Bizeray 22 Oct 2019	John Bizeray 26 Oct 2019	4
And WHERE do the moodle backup files go?	Sherman Keene 13 Oct 2019	Sherman Keene 20 Oct 2019	31
Unsure of What a Message Means	Ashley Boyd 17 Oct 2019	Visvanath Ratnaweera 19 Oct 2019	3
Capability 'moodle/blog:associatemodule' was not found!	Susan Fleming 9 Aug 2019	Yerko Zuñiga 16 Oct 2019	8
Download backup file with download manager	John Andre 3 Oct 2019	James Steerpike 14 Oct 2019	10
Restoring to Different Server	BSNB Tech 8 Oct 2019	BSNB Tech 9 Oct 2019	2
backup-moodle2-activity Files?	Natassia Stelmaszek 12 Apr 2019	Alain Raap 4 Oct 2019	10
Backup error (3.6): error/error_opening_file	John Andre 3 Oct 2019	John Andre 3 Oct 2019	2
Restore ~10 Courses at the same time	Andrew Normore 27 Sep 2019	Ken Task 27 Sep 2019	1
Moodle Admin user size is too large	praveen kota 3 Sep 2019	praveen kota 20 Sep 2019	2
sha1sum of file is different than context has in file.xml	Peter Kelly 17 Sep 2019	Peter Kelly 19 Sep 2019	2
automatic backup on our production DB server	Alain Raap 25 Apr 2019	Visvanath Ratnaweera 10 Sep 2019	4
Cannot enable Automated backups	Narissa Tuawhiorangi 5 Nov 2018	Narissa Tuawhiorangi 10 Sep 2019	4
[3.7]Course backup fails	Richard van Iwaarden 21 Aug 2019	Richard van Iwaarden 30 Aug 2019	4
course restore error ( The backup file contains more than one top-level question categories for ...	Garth Brady 28 Aug 2019	Ken Task 29 Aug 2019	3
How to backup database using PHPMYADMIN	mety soriano 28 Aug 2019	Emma Richardson 28 Aug 2019	3
How to retrieve modifications applied to themes before upgrade	dev Sprout 20 Aug 2019	dev Sprout 20 Aug 2019	0
User Access to Backup Areas	Andy Anderson 9 Jul 2019	Visvanath Ratnaweera 16 Aug 2019	3
restoring user work after deletion	Alex Fiscus 12 Jul 2019	Visvanath Ratnaweera 16 Aug 2019	1
Automated Backups to SMB share not listed in Restore	Patrick Sewell 14 Aug 2019	Visvanath Ratnaweera 16 Aug 2019	2

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