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restoring user work after deletion
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Picture of Alex Fiscus
Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 12:56 AM
Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 12:56 AM
User Access to Backup Areas
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Picture of Andy Anderson
Tue, Jul 9, 2019, 7:12 PM
Tue, Jul 9, 2019, 12:56 AM
Local plugin backup and grade item id annotation
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Mon, Jul 8, 2019, 4:07 PM
Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 10:58 PM
Asynchronous backup setting not visible in advanced features - Moodle 3.7+
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Picture of Kirtiman Sharma
Mon, Jul 1, 2019, 9:37 PM
Sun, Jun 30, 2019, 7:27 AM
backup-moodle2-activity Files?
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Picture of Natassia Stelmaszek
Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 2:23 AM
Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 4:49 AM
Restore and video upload timing out
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Picture of Ken Task
Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 6:30 AM
Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 3:29 AM
Cannot enable Automated backups
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Picture of Dominique Palumbo
Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 8:24 PM
Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 11:48 AM
Moodle 3.4 - backup more 2GB
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Picture of Dominique Palumbo
Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 8:17 PM
Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 4:55 AM
Error Backup course: Undefined function make_backup_temp_directory()
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Picture of Dominique Palumbo
Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 7:57 PM
Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 11:09 AM
Automated backups skip courses not modified - what does it check to see if the course has been modified?
Picture of Chris Pratt Chris Pratt
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Picture of Dominique Palumbo
Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 7:48 PM
Wed, May 29, 2019, 11:53 PM
Can't restore course that uses external question bank for quiz
Picture of Graciella Daminato Graciella Daminato
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Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 8:34 PM
Sat, Jun 8, 2019, 8:43 AM
Automated Site Backups Batch Script for Windows Server 2016
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Picture of Faizel Khan
Wed, Jun 5, 2019, 10:26 PM
Wed, Jun 5, 2019, 10:26 PM
Unable to restore courses from old version of moodle to new.
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Picture of Ken Task
Wed, May 29, 2019, 11:31 PM
Wed, May 29, 2019, 10:32 PM
Backup/restore changes activity type
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Picture of Stephen Ogden
Wed, May 29, 2019, 5:03 PM
Fri, May 24, 2019, 11:13 PM
Backup failure
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Picture of Jan Combrink
Mon, May 20, 2019, 2:30 PM
Wed, May 15, 2019, 9:37 PM
Is there still a way to include "enrolment method" in backup?
Picture of Gerald Grow Gerald Grow
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Picture of Gerald Grow
Wed, May 15, 2019, 9:24 AM
Mon, May 13, 2019, 4:57 AM
Table "sessions" does not exist
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Tue, May 14, 2019, 9:35 PM
Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 3:59 PM
back up course from Moodle 3.2 to 3.4 hangs up
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Picture of Kris Sazaki
Thu, May 9, 2019, 1:58 PM
Thu, May 9, 2019, 1:58 PM
New courses not added to table mdl_backup_courses
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Picture of Alain Raap
Wed, May 8, 2019, 8:36 PM
Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 5:13 PM
Back up a database and restore it with content
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Picture of Norbert Jänsch
Fri, May 3, 2019, 1:58 AM
Fri, May 3, 2019, 1:58 AM
automatic backup on our production DB server
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Picture of Alain Raap
Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:16 PM
Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 9:16 PM
Backup overloads database
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Picture of Rob Woof
Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 11:26 AM
Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 12:24 PM
Memory exhausted restoring course
Picture of Andrea Pelli Andrea Pelli
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Picture of Andrea Pelli
Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 11:12 PM
Fri, Apr 19, 2019, 6:15 PM
unzipping .mbz backups
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Picture of Bob Belz
Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 12:30 AM
Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 3:27 PM
Restore courses from 2.9.2 to 3.5.5
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Picture of Ken Task
Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 8:29 PM
Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 3:05 PM
Backup a course with quiz, though without scorm packages
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Picture of Jessica Kellerman
Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 2:35 PM
Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 12:14 AM
Backup + Import peculiarity
Picture of Julian Eduardo Cordero Arroyo Julian Eduardo Cordero Arroyo
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Picture of Julian Eduardo Cordero Arroyo
Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 4:25 AM
Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 3:39 AM
restoring students work
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Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 5:01 PM
Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 2:16 PM
Uploading course content from Excel
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Picture of Matthew Bennett
Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 11:17 PM
Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 4:57 AM
backup courses outside Moodle cron on DB server
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Picture of Alain Raap
Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 10:05 PM
Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 4:04 PM
Automated backup not working
Picture of Chan Weng Fu Chan Weng Fu
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Picture of Séverin Terrier
Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 5:34 PM
Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 12:05 PM
Importing in content independent of sections
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Picture of Brad Nielsen
Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 9:22 AM
Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 9:22 AM
Upload Courses CSV - Delete contents
Picture of Brad Nielsen Brad Nielsen
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Picture of Brad Nielsen
Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 1:00 PM
Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 1:00 PM
mdl_backup_courses - laststatus field mean? for automated backup
Picture of Jerry Lau Jerry Lau
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Picture of Séverin Terrier
Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 10:52 PM
Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 1:33 AM
Backup and restore all category courses
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Picture of Paulo Júnior
Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 7:15 PM
Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 7:15 PM
cannot_finish_ui_if_not_setting_ui
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Picture of Ken Task
Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 9:13 PM
Thu, Jan 3, 2019, 7:30 AM
Backup and restore... empty courses
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Picture of Ken Task
Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 6:32 AM
Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 7:09 PM
Problem restoring courses from anothe rmoodle
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Picture of Ian Moore
Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 7:12 AM
Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 7:12 AM
Course backup: Error writing to database
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1
Picture of Séverin Terrier
Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 10:38 PM
Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 9:54 PM
Course access when rolling over an academic year
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Picture of catalina moodle
Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 7:55 PM
Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 7:55 PM
Automated backups (cli) long backuping time/higher server load
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Picture of Séverin Terrier
Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 9:24 PM
Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 9:17 PM
Backups all courses in a course categorie?
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Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 6:55 PM
Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 8:35 PM
Restore creates empty topics
Picture of Dominique Bauer Dominique Bauer
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Picture of Séverin Terrier
Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 6:19 PM
Thu, Dec 27, 2018, 6:44 AM
Moodle Backup & Restore
Picture of Bhaskar Nethaji Bhaskar Nethaji
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Picture of Stuart Mealor
Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 3:44 PM
Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 9:20 PM
Can't backup or restore moodle site, course
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Picture of Reham Esmat
Sun, Dec 16, 2018, 3:31 AM
Sun, Dec 16, 2018, 2:13 AM
Error on restoring course: dependentstagerequested
Picture of Gerald Grow Gerald Grow
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Picture of Ken Task
Sat, Dec 15, 2018, 12:17 AM
Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 6:09 AM
Automatic backup files size doubling with no reason
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Picture of Séverin Terrier
Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 9:09 PM
Sat, Dec 8, 2018, 4:02 PM
Moodle temp/backup folder keeps consuming disk space
Picture of Hosein Naseri Hosein Naseri
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Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 1:06 AM
Thu, Feb 1, 2018, 3:33 AM
Default location of automated course backup files? (Moodle 3.5)
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Picture of Séverin Terrier
Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 4:46 PM
Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 1:40 AM
cannot_precheck_wrong_status
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Picture of Daniel Villareal
Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 6:48 AM
Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 6:48 AM
Backup course in Moodle v1.9 and restore in Moodle v3.4
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Picture of Konrad Lorinczi
Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 4:41 AM
Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 2:24 AM
error backing up courses - "setting_invalid_ui_label"
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Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 7:36 AM
Tue, Dec 20, 2016, 12:04 AM
Automated backup Faiing
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Picture of Narissa Tuawhiorangi
Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 11:49 AM
Thu, Feb 1, 2018, 5:51 PM
Restore deleted course, no .mbz
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Picture of Ken Task
Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 1:25 AM
Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 7:40 AM
Moodle Login page redirects to a wrong URL
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Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 1:41 AM
Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 8:53 PM
Encoding IDs in course format options for backup
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Picture of Matthias Opitz
Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 12:13 AM
Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 12:13 AM
backup_id_temp
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1
Picture of Ken Task
Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 6:20 PM
Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 2:44 PM
Moodle Data
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Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 6:11 PM
Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 7:33 AM
Things Shouldn't Be Backed Up
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Picture of Natassia Stelmaszek
Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 6:18 AM
Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 5:42 AM
[3.5]Thousands of info_from_mbz_.... files
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Picture of Richard van Iwaarden
Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 6:11 PM
Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 3:33 AM
Restore Course Never Finish Error code: invalidrestorefile
Picture of Purina Qurota Ayunin Purina Qurota Ayunin
1
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Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 4:05 PM
Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 2:44 PM
Backup error within a course (courseid = 1)
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Picture of Séverin Terrier
Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 7:15 PM
Mon, Sep 18, 2017, 2:50 PM
Automatic backup on hosted server
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Picture of Ken Task
Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 7:34 AM
Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 2:26 AM
Unable to backup courses
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Picture of Ken Task
Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 2:40 AM
Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 7:01 PM
Full moodle site backup
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Picture of Séverin Terrier
Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 4:10 PM
Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 8:05 PM
Backup and restore problems
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Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 8:49 PM
Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 12:45 PM
Course backup files deleted after restoring the course
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Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 10:23 AM
Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 10:23 AM
Delete old Backups after setting up individual "backup | backup_auto_destination"
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Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 12:46 PM
Mon, Sep 3, 2018, 1:56 PM
php that creates and restores a course backup
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Picture of Ken Task
Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 1:22 AM
Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 11:30 PM
The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.
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Picture of Terry David
Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 5:11 PM
Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 12:42 PM
CSS stripped out from webcontent HTML in Common Cartridge
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Picture of Govinda Sarkhel
Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 10:49 PM
Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 10:49 PM
Increasing succes on automated backup
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Picture of Séverin Terrier
Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 9:41 PM
Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 3:10 AM
Course restore: error/setting_invalid_integer
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Picture of Ken Task
Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 5:18 AM
Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 2:16 AM
Error in transfer
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Picture of Ken Task
Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:24 PM
Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 9:32 PM
Backing Up Announcements
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Picture of Juan F
Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 8:34 AM
Mon, Aug 6, 2018, 1:07 AM
The Authenticated user role in the backup file cannot be mapped to any of the roles that you are allowed to assign.
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Picture of Alec Young
Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 9:33 PM
Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 6:01 PM
moodle 3.1 backup user with profile image
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Picture of ivan Rivas
Mon, Aug 6, 2018, 9:50 PM
Mon, Aug 6, 2018, 9:50 PM
Config table does not contain version
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Picture of Jordan Young
Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 6:32 PM
Fri, Jul 27, 2018, 9:39 PM
Moodle Errors
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Picture of Jordan Young
Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 2:26 AM
Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 2:26 AM
Course Backup versus User Backup Area (file location?)
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Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 12:46 PM
Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 6:23 AM
issue in automated restore of courses
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Picture of deva m
Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 1:19 PM
Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 1:19 PM
What Counts As "Modified" for Automatic Backups?
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Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 9:58 PM
Thu, Jan 4, 2018, 6:54 AM
Bulk backups consuming too much disk space even though I'm sending the backups to a completely separate drive
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Picture of Ken Task
Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 10:14 PM
Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 9:15 PM
Moosh vs nohup backup and restore
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Picture of Ken Task
Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 2:50 AM
Fri, Jun 29, 2018, 1:45 AM
Delete old backup files?
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Picture of Ken Task
Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 5:47 AM
Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 3:15 AM
Course Backup Not Showing Up
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Picture of Carolyn DeHass
Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 11:05 PM
Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 11:05 PM
Switched to HTTPS - images now broken
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Picture of Ken Task
Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 2:37 AM
Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 6:44 PM
Import course data and restrict access topics of topics
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Wed, Jun 6, 2018, 9:24 PM
Tue, Jul 11, 2017, 4:21 AM
Does backup backup backup files ;-)
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Picture of Ken Task
Wed, Jun 6, 2018, 5:13 AM
Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 11:08 PM
Restore topic number X to topic number Y
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Picture of Gerry F
Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 11:36 PM
Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 10:22 PM
Timeout when deleting a large course
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Picture of Alain Raap
Thu, May 31, 2018, 3:55 PM
Thu, May 31, 2018, 3:55 PM
Error in backup
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Picture of Séverin Terrier
Mon, May 28, 2018, 9:27 PM
Thu, May 24, 2018, 4:06 PM
Moving a course from MoodleCloud to MoodleBox
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Picture of James Noxon
Thu, May 24, 2018, 7:20 AM
Tue, May 22, 2018, 8:12 AM
User Data - Locked by dependencies
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Picture of Conn Warwicker
Wed, May 23, 2018, 5:25 PM
Tue, May 22, 2018, 9:14 PM
Course summary file not included in restore
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Picture of Conn Warwicker
Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:02 PM
Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:02 PM
"The ... role in the backup file cannot be mapped to any of the roles that you are allowed to assign"
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Picture of Conn Warwicker
Mon, May 21, 2018, 8:59 PM
Mon, May 21, 2018, 7:11 PM
Moodle site is doing daily backups at 45gb and killing the disk
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Fri, May 18, 2018, 3:22 PM
Wed, May 9, 2018, 9:58 PM
[3.4] Automated backups initial run (1000 courses)
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Picture of Richard van Iwaarden
Fri, May 18, 2018, 3:14 PM
Mon, May 14, 2018, 3:52 PM
ERROR: relation "mdl_backup_ids_temp" does not exist
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Fri, May 18, 2018, 12:11 AM
Fri, May 18, 2018, 12:11 AM
Moodle User Restore function Not Working
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Tue, May 15, 2018, 6:16 PM
Thu, May 3, 2018, 1:43 PM