Backup and restore

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Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
[3.9.1]Automated backup Emails	Richard van Iwaarden 7 Sep 2020	Richard van Iwaarden 16 May 2021	7
temp/backup origin	Iban Cardona Subiela 14 May 2021	Ken Task 14 May 2021	1
Duplicate (copy) multiple courses at once?	Adam Malesevic 11 May 2021	Emma Richardson 14 May 2021	5
Question about automated backups, restore and deletion	SmythSys IT Consulting 12 May 2021	Ken Task 13 May 2021	3
Course copy and teacher access	pitou col 10 May 2021	pitou col 10 May 2021	0
course restoration stops at 25%	Janvi MDL 6 May 2021	Ken Task 8 May 2021	3
Problem with automated backup	Unai s 6 May 2021	Unai s 6 May 2021	0
Error writing to database	Abdelrahman Elwakeel 21 Apr 2021	Emma Richardson 6 May 2021	1
Importing olderbackups -i searched and searched the forum before posting.	Paul Hawse 27 Apr 2021	Emma Richardson 6 May 2021	1
Extraction of Moodle data	Aditya Nigam 5 May 2021	Marcus Green 5 May 2021	1
Restoring Course with existing users.	Chetan Madaan 2 May 2021	Ken Task 2 May 2021	1
Some Grades Missing from Restored Course	Stephen Teichgraeber 1 May 2021	Stephen Teichgraeber 1 May 2021	0
Backup restore - single activity	Ana Iudica 23 Apr 2021	Ana Iudica 23 Apr 2021	2
Backup with users, restoration in another server, and course participation report	Antonio García Fuentes 22 Apr 2021	Antonio García Fuentes 22 Apr 2021	1
Migrate Courses, Users, enrollments and records from LMS A to LMS B	Dan Bell 14 Apr 2021	Dan Bell 19 Apr 2021	2
Course creation from course template not rolling dates of modules	Fabian Glagovsky 11 Apr 2021	Fabian Glagovsky 18 Apr 2021	5
Difference between a Front Page Backup and a Course Backup	Dan O'Reilly 12 Apr 2021	Dan O'Reilly 14 Apr 2021	2
Unable to delete course	Victor Lamote de Grignon i Alifonso 29 Jan 2021	Brad Pasley 13 Apr 2021	10
Abort a restore in process pending	Bernat Martinez 9 Sep 2020	MEDIENFUX gGmbH 10 Apr 2021	3
Automated backup report - difference between Unfinished and Pending?	Ray Hinton 10 Apr 2021	Ray Hinton 10 Apr 2021	0
Manual Course Backup not working	Ricardo Caiado 8 Apr 2021	Ricardo Caiado 8 Apr 2021	0
Moodle 3.6- Deleting from /data/moodledata/filedir without Moosh	Aarthi Ramesh 29 Mar 2021	Ken Task 30 Mar 2021	1
Backup for specific item id is created each time cron is executed	Soporte Itze 25 Mar 2021	Soporte Itze 29 Mar 2021	4
Course Restore Does Not Add Go1 Activities	Joe Keilholz 25 Mar 2021	Joe Keilholz 26 Mar 2021	3
restore topics	Chika ほ 25 Mar 2021	Emma Richardson 25 Mar 2021	1
Probs with course restore	Steve Pelham 24 Mar 2021	Steve Pelham 24 Mar 2021	1
Issues while restoring course backup file from moodle 3.5 to 3.10	Janvi MDL 23 Mar 2021	Janvi MDL 24 Mar 2021	2
Moodle Data Relocation Disaster	Tim F 16 Mar 2021	Tim F 16 Mar 2021	2
import success but cant find imported activity	Mike Kaspers 5 Mar 2021	Mike Kaspers 10 Mar 2021	2
automated backup performance Moodle 3.9	Alain Raap 25 Feb 2021	Alain Raap 10 Mar 2021	2
ERROR WITH RESTORING COURSE - error/decode_rule_incorrect_name	tyrone deza 10 Mar 2021	tyrone deza 10 Mar 2021	0
backup/restore using plugin brcli	Mario Gharib 22 Feb 2021	Emma Richardson 10 Mar 2021	1
Suggestions/advice on manually running automated course backups	Bobby Siegfried 2 Mar 2021	Emma Richardson 10 Mar 2021	2
Course Backup	Hobson Arro 4 Mar 2021	Emma Richardson 10 Mar 2021	2
Make course importable by all users	Chiara Di Terlizzi 23 Feb 2021	Randy Thornton 2 Mar 2021	8
[3.7] Maximum file size for restoring course	Richard van Iwaarden 18 May 2020	Marina Dibrova 1 Mar 2021	12
Problem with deleting a course in Cron; possible related issue of ad hoc tasks not running and ...	Robert Malpas 20 Feb 2021	Robert Malpas 27 Feb 2021	2
Moodle 3.10 - Failed to find an answer matching "" in the question_answers database table	Peter Svec 31 Dec 2020	Ken Task 13 Feb 2021	9
Files.xml in backup miss filename info	Peter Svec 12 Feb 2021	Peter Svec 13 Feb 2021	2
Restoring backup into course should not delete previous backups	Francis Joseph Serina 8 Dec 2020	Stan Klapauszak 11 Feb 2021	9
deleting the files backups from moodledata	Aymen Mansouri 20 Jan 2021	Aymen Mansouri 29 Jan 2021	3
The backup process stops at 95.42%	Ahmad Amer 13 Jan 2021	Beto Boton 25 Jan 2021	10
Restoring a course from an older automated backup	Edward Bethel 18 Jan 2021	Ken Task 20 Jan 2021	3
Restore From Totara - Moodle 3.9+	Dave Emsley 15 Jan 2021	Dave Emsley 18 Jan 2021	2
Manually running automated backups results in all courses being skipped	Steve Morris 6 Jan 2021	Ken Task 9 Jan 2021	10
Automated backup does not include enrolled users and grades	Minh Nguyen Ba 7 Jan 2021	Minh Nguyen Ba 8 Jan 2021	2
Is it ok to delete php temp folder	Osama Hasan 5 Jan 2021	Osama Hasan 5 Jan 2021	0
Merging 2 Moodle Sites	Shital Kothari 2 Dec 2020	Ken Task 31 Dec 2020	7
Grades from Manually Created Grade Items Missing After Restore	David Heuring 22 Dec 2020	David Heuring 22 Dec 2020	0
[3.9.1] Delete oldest automated backup from Moodledata instantly, not keeping them in trashdir	Marius S 21 Dec 2020	Visvanath Ratnaweera 22 Dec 2020	2
Creating large backup file is problem in course	praveen kota 1 Dec 2020	Ken Task 10 Dec 2020	17
Question regarding automated backup process	Francis Lorenzo Guingao Doydora 4 Dec 2020	Francis Lorenzo Guingao Doydora 7 Dec 2020	10
moving question bank from one moodle site to another	Luigi Esposito 3 Dec 2020	Luigi Esposito 5 Dec 2020	4
My database is fully corupted , how can i recover some blocks	Kavidu Jayakody 22 Nov 2020	Colin Fraser 22 Nov 2020	1
Asynchronous backup Error	Aravind Prasad 19 Nov 2020	Ken Task 19 Nov 2020	1
Migration filesdir Files not opening	RB T 16 Nov 2020	Emma Richardson 17 Nov 2020	5
Backup a large course is not working	Denis Perciliano 24 Apr 2020	Visvanath Ratnaweera 17 Nov 2020	2
Many unfinished automated course backups	Bente Olsen 16 Nov 2020	Bente Olsen 17 Nov 2020	2
Backing up course sections via CLI or SQL?	N.R Bhanji 13 Nov 2020	N.R Bhanji 14 Nov 2020	5
Automated Course Backup	Svenja Lell 6 Nov 2020	Emma Richardson 13 Nov 2020	3
Restore Courses Larger than 500 MB	Elizabeth Cummins 7 Nov 2020	Elizabeth Cummins 7 Nov 2020	0
Course upload via csv COMBINED with template = problem	Ralf Oswald 3 Nov 2020	Ralf Oswald 3 Nov 2020	0
Delete course backup	Priya Joy 22 Oct 2020	Sarah Kennedy 25 Oct 2020	1
Course copy fails, backup fails	Brendon Hatcher 15 Jul 2020	Jan Michlík 14 Oct 2020	6
Automated backup consumation of space	Ivica Matotek 12 Oct 2020	Ivica Matotek 12 Oct 2020	0
import D2L to Moodle as a course	Allison Soo 1 Oct 2020	Allison Soo 1 Oct 2020	0
Restore quizzes from SQL dump	Boštjan Gabrovšek 30 Sep 2020	Boštjan Gabrovšek 30 Sep 2020	5
After hardware failure during Automated backup, courses that were skipped before keep getting ...	Gerry F 25 Sep 2020	Gerry F 28 Sep 2020	4
Unstoppable automated backups in 3.5	Mike Kelly 26 Sep 2020	Ken Task 27 Sep 2020	5
Backups Pending, never executing.	Ian Anderson 22 Sep 2020	Ivica Matotek 24 Sep 2020	2
Error when backing up	Gary Newport 20 Sep 2020	Gary Newport 20 Sep 2020	1
Automated backups schedule - which setting is used - Automated backup setup or Automated backups ...	Nejc Razdrih 17 Sep 2020	Emma Richardson 17 Sep 2020	1
Logs of course reset operations	Yasir Mehmood 17 Sep 2020	Yasir Mehmood 17 Sep 2020	0
[3.9] Automated backups consumes all disk space and trashdir is full	Marius S 23 Aug 2020	Alain Raap 17 Sep 2020	23
User Restore not working	Ewelyn Felice 17 Sep 2020	Ken Task 17 Sep 2020	1
Backup and resetting a course	Dylan Lewis 14 Sep 2020	Dylan Lewis 14 Sep 2020	0
Backup of moodle installation folder	omid hamedi 10 Sep 2020	Thorsten Bartel 11 Sep 2020	1
Can I backup a course from Mysql and restore to Postgres?	Walter Byrd 15 Aug 2020	Leon Stringer 9 Sep 2020	8
Hidden Topic settings not carrying over during Restore	David Gilder 8 Sep 2020	Helen Foster 8 Sep 2020	1
"Error writing to database"	cyber sec 6 Sep 2020	cyber sec 6 Sep 2020	2
Comparison of Course Restore/Copy Options	Aletha Williams 5 Sep 2020	John Provasnik 6 Sep 2020	1
How do I delete old Course backups?	Conrad Bucsis 31 Aug 2020	Conrad Bucsis 31 Aug 2020	0
"The backup file contains more than one top-level question categories for context 396. "	cyber sec 30 Aug 2020	cyber sec 31 Aug 2020	1
Automatic Backup fails and manual backup does not complete	Alexander Gres 19 Aug 2020	Ken Task 30 Aug 2020	9
Issue : Import only a few sections from one course into another	Guillaume Tschupp 28 Aug 2020	Guillaume Tschupp 28 Aug 2020	0
Dealing with course restores with users	Aaron Batty 27 Aug 2020	Aaron Batty 28 Aug 2020	3
Question type supported in IMS CC export	Allison Soo 27 Aug 2020	Dan Marsden 28 Aug 2020	1
Accidentally cancelled moosh course-backup, now backups don't work	Jonathan Tsoi 26 Aug 2020	Jonathan Tsoi 27 Aug 2020	1
Changing upload_max_filesize in php.ini is not working	Walter Byrd 26 Aug 2020	Walter Byrd 26 Aug 2020	1
Automated backups unfinished	Bernat Martinez 17 Aug 2020	Bernat Martinez 17 Aug 2020	2
Category-context questions are copied to course-context, why?	Jari Vilkman 13 Aug 2020	Jari Vilkman 17 Aug 2020	2
Restore stops, no error messages.	Stan Shap 4 Aug 2020	James Steerpike 12 Aug 2020	1
Restore big Course which where uploaded to the server by ftp	Irith Herman 6 Aug 2020	Ken Task 7 Aug 2020	2
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
[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

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