Backup and restore

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Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
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
Restore Course from cli using admin/cli/restore.php	Lazaros Sotiriadis 8 Dec 2019	Séverin Terrier 6 Feb 2020	50
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
[3.7]Course backup process no longer working	Richard van Iwaarden 29 Oct 2019	Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 30 Oct 2019	3
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
Moodle size is too large	praveen kota 14 Aug 2019	praveen kota 21 Aug 2019	4
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
Backup 3.1 -> restore in 3.7.1 include course log not included	John Andre 10 Aug 2019	Ken Task 11 Aug 2019	3
Backup Categories and Restore it to a new Moodle	Maher Elaissi 7 Aug 2019	deva m 7 Aug 2019	1
Importing sections, activities and resources creates countless unnecessary sections	Joost Elshoff 30 Jul 2019	Joost Elshoff 30 Jul 2019	0
[ERROR] in Automated backup status	Stan Shap 19 Jul 2019	Alain Raap 23 Jul 2019	1
Local plugin backup and grade item id annotation	Michael Gardener 5 Jul 2019	Dominique Palumbo 8 Jul 2019	1
Asynchronous backup setting not visible in advanced features - Moodle 3.7+	Kirtiman Sharma 30 Jun 2019	Kirtiman Sharma 1 Jul 2019	4
Restore and video upload timing out	Rachel Grzymkowski 19 Jun 2019	Ken Task 19 Jun 2019	1
Moodle 3.4 - backup more 2GB	ivan Rivas 13 Apr 2019	Dominique Palumbo 18 Jun 2019	1
Error Backup course: Undefined function make_backup_temp_directory()	Pakpoom Boonjeed 30 Apr 2019	Dominique Palumbo 18 Jun 2019	1
Automated backups skip courses not modified - what does it check to see if the course has been ...	Chris Pratt 29 May 2019	Dominique Palumbo 14 Jun 2019	4
Can't restore course that uses external question bank for quiz	Graciella Daminato 8 Jun 2019	Graciella Daminato 12 Jun 2019	2
Automated Site Backups Batch Script for Windows Server 2016	Faizel Khan 5 Jun 2019	Faizel Khan 5 Jun 2019	0
Unable to restore courses from old version of moodle to new.	Matt Nicholson 29 May 2019	Ken Task 29 May 2019	1
Backup/restore changes activity type	Stephen Ogden 24 May 2019	Stephen Ogden 29 May 2019	5
Backup failure	Jan Combrink 15 May 2019	Jan Combrink 20 May 2019	2
Is there still a way to include "enrolment method" in backup?	Gerald Grow 13 May 2019	Gerald Grow 15 May 2019	2
Table "sessions" does not exist	Ruslan None 6 Sep 2018	Al Henneberger 14 May 2019	4
back up course from Moodle 3.2 to 3.4 hangs up	Kris Sazaki 9 May 2019	Kris Sazaki 9 May 2019	0
New courses not added to table mdl_backup_courses	Alain Raap 26 Feb 2019	Alain Raap 8 May 2019	32
Back up a database and restore it with content	Norbert Jänsch 3 May 2019	Norbert Jänsch 3 May 2019	0
Backup overloads database	Rob Woof 17 Apr 2019	Rob Woof 24 Apr 2019	13
Memory exhausted restoring course	Andrea Pelli 19 Apr 2019	Andrea Pelli 23 Apr 2019	2
unzipping .mbz backups	Ryan McKinnie 22 Feb 2019	Bob Belz 18 Apr 2019	3
Restore courses from 2.9.2 to 3.5.5	nicola cantalupo 12 Apr 2019	Ken Task 13 Apr 2019	7
Backup a course with quiz, though without scorm packages	Jessica Kellerman 5 Apr 2019	Jessica Kellerman 5 Apr 2019	2
Backup + Import peculiarity	Julian Eduardo Cordero Arroyo 5 Apr 2019	Julian Eduardo Cordero Arroyo 5 Apr 2019	2
restoring students work	Anna-Maria Laattala 23 Oct 2018	Séverin Terrier 27 Mar 2019	9
Uploading course content from Excel	Matthew Bennett 21 Mar 2019	Matthew Bennett 21 Mar 2019	7
backup courses outside Moodle cron on DB server	Alain Raap 14 Mar 2019	Alain Raap 19 Mar 2019	2
Automated backup not working	Chan Weng Fu 19 Mar 2019	Séverin Terrier 19 Mar 2019	1
Importing in content independent of sections	Brad Nielsen 19 Mar 2019	Brad Nielsen 19 Mar 2019	0
Upload Courses CSV - Delete contents	Brad Nielsen 18 Mar 2019	Brad Nielsen 18 Mar 2019	0
mdl_backup_courses - laststatus field mean? for automated backup	Jerry Lau 15 Mar 2019	Séverin Terrier 15 Mar 2019	4
Backup and restore all category courses	Paulo Júnior 15 Mar 2019	Paulo Júnior 15 Mar 2019	0
cannot_finish_ui_if_not_setting_ui	Perry Way 3 Jan 2019	Ken Task 14 Mar 2019	35
Backup and restore... empty courses	Gerardo Fallani 28 Feb 2019	Ken Task 1 Mar 2019	1
Problem restoring courses from anothe rmoodle	Ian Moore 26 Feb 2019	Ian Moore 26 Feb 2019	0
Course backup: Error writing to database Locked	Aviwe Foji 20 Feb 2019	Séverin Terrier 20 Feb 2019	1
Course access when rolling over an academic year Locked	catalina moodle 13 Feb 2019	catalina moodle 13 Feb 2019	0
Automated backups (cli) long backuping time/higher server load Locked	Marius S 24 Sep 2018	Séverin Terrier 8 Feb 2019	9
Backups all courses in a course categorie? Locked	stefan weber 17 Dec 2018	Dario Roig Garcia 23 Jan 2019	2
Restore creates empty topics Locked	Dominique Bauer 27 Dec 2018	Séverin Terrier 23 Jan 2019	4
Moodle Backup & Restore Locked	Bhaskar Nethaji 20 Dec 2018	Stuart Mealor 18 Jan 2019	2
Can't backup or restore moodle site, course Locked	Reham Esmat 16 Dec 2018	Reham Esmat 16 Dec 2018	2
Error on restoring course: dependentstagerequested Locked	Gerald Grow 14 Dec 2018	Ken Task 15 Dec 2018	3
Automatic backup files size doubling with no reason Locked	Bernat Martinez 8 Dec 2018	Séverin Terrier 10 Dec 2018	5
Default location of automated course backup files? (Moodle 3.5) Locked	David M 22 Nov 2018	Séverin Terrier 23 Nov 2018	6
cannot_precheck_wrong_status Locked	Daniel Villareal 20 Nov 2018	Daniel Villareal 20 Nov 2018	0
Backup course in Moodle v1.9 and restore in Moodle v3.4 Locked	Konrad Lorinczi 11 Sep 2018	Konrad Lorinczi 14 Nov 2018	6
error backing up courses - "setting_invalid_ui_label" Locked	Drew Smith 20 Dec 2016	Emma Richardson 9 Nov 2018	14
Automated backup Faiing Locked	Peter Goldsmith 1 Feb 2018	Narissa Tuawhiorangi 5 Nov 2018	11
Restore deleted course, no .mbz Locked	Ann Kenady 27 Oct 2018	Ken Task 31 Oct 2018	5

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