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Discussion	Started by	Replies	Last post
Memory exhausted restoring course	Andrea Pelli	1	Ken Task Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 5:17 AM
Backup overloads database	Rob Woof	9	Ken Task Sat, Apr 20, 2019, 5:12 AM
unzipping .mbz backups	Ryan McKinnie	3	Bob Belz Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 12:30 AM
Restore courses from 2.9.2 to 3.5.5	nicola cantalupo	7	Ken Task Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 8:29 PM
Moodle 3.4 - backup more 2GB	ivan Rivas	0	ivan Rivas Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 4:55 AM
backup-moodle2-activity Files?	Natassia Stelmaszek	5	Ken Task Sat, Apr 13, 2019, 3:29 AM
Backup a course with quiz, though without scorm packages	Jessica Kellerman	2	Jessica Kellerman Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 2:35 PM
Backup + Import peculiarity	Julian Eduardo Cordero Arroyo	2	Julian Eduardo Cordero Arroyo Fri, Apr 5, 2019, 4:25 AM
New courses not added to table mdl_backup_courses	Alain Raap	31	Alain Raap Wed, Apr 3, 2019, 3:32 PM
restoring students work	Anna Laattala	9	Séverin Terrier Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 5:03 PM
Uploading course content from Excel	Matthew Bennett	7	Matthew Bennett Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 11:17 PM
backup courses outside Moodle cron on DB server	Alain Raap	2	Alain Raap Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 10:17 PM
Automated backup not working	Chan Weng Fu	1	Séverin Terrier Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 5:34 PM
Importing in content independent of sections	Brad Nielsen	0	Brad Nielsen Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 9:22 AM
Upload Courses CSV - Delete contents	Brad Nielsen	0	Brad Nielsen Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 1:00 PM
mdl_backup_courses - laststatus field mean? for automated backup	Jerry Lau	4	Séverin Terrier Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 10:52 PM
Backup and restore all category courses	Paulo Júnior	0	Paulo Júnior Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 7:15 PM
cannot_finish_ui_if_not_setting_ui	Perry Way	35	Ken Task Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 9:13 PM
Backup and restore... empty courses	Gerardo Fallani	1	Ken Task Fri, Mar 1, 2019, 6:32 AM
Problem restoring courses from anothe rmoodle	Ian Moore	0	Ian Moore Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 7:12 AM
Course backup: Error writing to database	Aviwe Foji	1	Séverin Terrier Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 10:38 PM
Course access when rolling over an academic year	catalina moodle	0	catalina moodle Wed, Feb 13, 2019, 7:55 PM
Automated backups (cli) long backuping time/higher server load	Marius S	9	Séverin Terrier Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 9:24 PM
Backups all courses in a course categorie?	stefan weber	2	Dario Roig Garcia Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 6:55 PM
Restore creates empty topics	Dominique Bauer	4	Séverin Terrier Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 6:19 PM
Moodle Backup & Restore	Bhaskar Nethaji	2	Stuart Mealor Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 3:44 PM
Can't backup or restore moodle site, course	Reham Esmat	2	Reham Esmat Sun, Dec 16, 2018, 3:31 AM
Error on restoring course: dependentstagerequested	Gerald Grow	3	Ken Task Sat, Dec 15, 2018, 12:17 AM
Automatic backup files size doubling with no reason	Bernat Martinez	5	Séverin Terrier Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 9:09 PM
Moodle temp/backup folder keeps consuming disk space	Hosein Naseri	36	Help Desk Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 1:06 AM
Default location of automated course backup files? (Moodle 3.5)	David M	6	Séverin Terrier Fri, Nov 23, 2018, 4:46 PM
cannot_precheck_wrong_status	Daniel Villareal	0	Daniel Villareal Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 6:48 AM
Backup course in Moodle v1.9 and restore in Moodle v3.4	Konrad Lorinczi	6	Konrad Lorinczi Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 4:41 AM
Cannot enable Automated backups	Narissa Tuawhiorangi	1	Ivica Matotek Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 9:32 PM
error backing up courses - "setting_invalid_ui_label"	Drew Smith	14	Emma Richardson Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 7:36 AM
Automated backup Faiing	Peter Goldsmith	11	Narissa Tuawhiorangi Mon, Nov 5, 2018, 11:49 AM
Restore deleted course, no .mbz	Ann Kenady	5	Ken Task Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 1:25 AM
Moodle Login page redirects to a wrong URL	Ayyaz Qamar	9	Polikarpos Skapinakis Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 1:41 AM
Encoding IDs in course format options for backup	Matthias Opitz	0	Matthias Opitz Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 12:13 AM
backup_id_temp	Bo Pierce	1	Ken Task Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 6:20 PM
Moodle Data	Nischal Chandra	3	Marcus Green Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 6:11 PM
Things Shouldn't Be Backed Up	Natassia Stelmaszek	2	Natassia Stelmaszek Tue, Oct 2, 2018, 6:18 AM
[3.5]Thousands of info_from_mbz_.... files	Richard van Iwaarden	38	Richard van Iwaarden Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 6:12 PM
Restore Course Never Finish Error code: invalidrestorefile	Purina Qurota Ayunin	1	Séverin Terrier Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 4:05 PM
Backup error within a course (courseid = 1)	Adrian Perez Rodriguez	24	Séverin Terrier Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 7:18 PM
Automatic backup on hosted server	Robert Hegestedt	1	Ken Task Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 7:34 AM
Unable to backup courses	Mahesh Babu Telakula Sathyan	1	Ken Task Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 2:40 AM
Full moodle site backup	manali parate	1	Séverin Terrier Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 4:10 PM
Backup and restore problems	Pritha Choudhury	1	Emma Richardson Wed, Sep 19, 2018, 8:49 PM
Course backup files deleted after restoring the course	Youssef Han	0	Youssef Han Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 10:23 AM
Table "sessions" does not exist	Ruslan None	3	Ken Task Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 11:42 PM
Delete old Backups after setting up individual "backup \| backup_auto_destination"	Nicoals Romero	6	Nicoals Romero Tue, Sep 4, 2018, 12:46 PM
php that creates and restores a course backup	Juan Carlos C. P.	1	Ken Task Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 1:22 AM
The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.	Terry David	5	Terry David Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 5:11 PM
CSS stripped out from webcontent HTML in Common Cartridge	Govinda Sarkhel	0	Govinda Sarkhel Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 10:49 PM
Increasing succes on automated backup	Richard van Iwaarden	1	Séverin Terrier Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 9:41 PM
Course restore: error/setting_invalid_integer	Erackson Brito	4	Ken Task Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 5:18 AM
Error in transfer	Abbas sharif	1	Ken Task Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:24 PM
Backing Up Announcements	Juan F	2	Juan F Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 8:34 AM
The Authenticated user role in the backup file cannot be mapped to any of the roles that you are allowed to assign.	Alec Young	2	Alec Young Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 9:33 PM
moodle 3.1 backup user with profile image	ivan Rivas	0	ivan Rivas Mon, Aug 6, 2018, 9:50 PM
Config table does not contain version	Jordan Young	11	Jordan Young Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 6:32 PM
Moodle Errors	Jordan Young	0	Jordan Young Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 2:26 AM
Course Backup versus User Backup Area (file location?)	Debbie Unterseher	4	Colin Fraser Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 12:46 PM
issue in automated restore of courses	deva m	0	deva m Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 1:32 PM
What Counts As "Modified" for Automatic Backups?	Natassia Stelmaszek	19	Natassia Stelmaszek Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 9:58 PM
Bulk backups consuming too much disk space even though I'm sending the backups to a completely separate drive	Sean Scott	1	Ken Task Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 10:14 PM
Moosh vs nohup backup and restore	Jamie Tinley	5	Ken Task Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 2:50 AM
Delete old backup files?	Rex Lorenzo	1	Ken Task Sat, Jun 23, 2018, 5:47 AM
Course Backup Not Showing Up	Carolyn DeHass	0	Carolyn DeHass Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 11:05 PM
Switched to HTTPS - images now broken	Alex Vanden Bosch	8	Ken Task Thu, Jun 7, 2018, 2:37 AM
Import course data and restrict access topics of topics	Helson C	4	Jesse Burns Wed, Jun 6, 2018, 9:53 PM
Does backup backup backup files ;-)	Howard Miller	4	Ken Task Wed, Jun 6, 2018, 5:13 AM
Restore topic number X to topic number Y	Gerry F	2	Gerry F Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 11:36 PM
Timeout when deleting a large course	Alain Raap	0	Alain Raap Thu, May 31, 2018, 3:55 PM
Error in backup	jesus garate	8	Séverin Terrier Mon, May 28, 2018, 9:27 PM
Moving a course from MoodleCloud to MoodleBox	James Noxon	4	James Noxon Thu, May 24, 2018, 7:20 AM
User Data - Locked by dependencies	Conn Warwicker	1	Conn Warwicker Wed, May 23, 2018, 5:25 PM
Course summary file not included in restore	Conn Warwicker	0	Conn Warwicker 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"	Conn Warwicker	2	Conn Warwicker Mon, May 21, 2018, 9:00 PM
Moodle site is doing daily backups at 45gb and killing the disk	Andrew Normore	4	Richard van Iwaarden Fri, May 18, 2018, 3:23 PM
[3.4] Automated backups initial run (1000 courses)	Richard van Iwaarden	9	Richard van Iwaarden Fri, May 18, 2018, 3:14 PM
ERROR: relation "mdl_backup_ids_temp" does not exist	Shaun T	0	Shaun T Fri, May 18, 2018, 12:11 AM
Moodle User Restore function Not Working	Daryl Narayan	3	Daryl Narayan Tue, May 15, 2018, 6:16 PM
Automated Course Backups, 2 backups or 1 ?	Paul L	0	Paul L Fri, May 4, 2018, 1:20 AM
Bulk Archiving Courses	Sean Scott	12	Ken Task Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 2:57 PM
negative file size for course back up	Chris Nelson	11	Chris Nelson Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 2:33 AM
error_log_logger.class.php empty	Rob Mills	1	Séverin Terrier Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 10:56 PM
Migrating from D2L Brightspace to Moodle	Anandarup Kar	0	Anandarup Kar Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 8:36 PM
Last access to course	Dan Thomson	0	Dan Thomson Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 6:37 AM
Moodle 3.3.5 and problems doing backup	Séverin Terrier	5	Séverin Terrier Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 6:42 PM
Back up unsuccessful - locked by dependencies	Leticia Dark-rose	14	Dean Thayer Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 12:36 AM
problem in backup	abdou salem	3	Ken Task Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 7:52 AM
Medium changer of Scalar i3 does not appear	Hivers Brice	0	Hivers Brice Fri, Mar 9, 2018, 2:52 AM
Automated Backups ddlexecuteerror	Andrew Deathridge	0	Andrew Deathridge Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 5:45 PM
Course Restore in Progress	Contact Admin	6	Colin Fraser Sat, Mar 3, 2018, 5:46 AM
Identifying a manual vs an automated backup file	Jerry Lau	4	Jerry Lau Fri, Mar 2, 2018, 4:12 AM
Restore file will not upload	Tricia Alexander	6	Tricia Alexander Wed, Feb 14, 2018, 6:00 PM
Where is the course backup area?	Leticia Dark-rose	4	Helen Foster Wed, Feb 14, 2018, 5:18 PM
Backup Fails at 99%	Rebecca Eveland	0	Rebecca Eveland Tue, Feb 6, 2018, 9:53 AM