Backup and restore

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Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
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
The backup process stops at 95.42%	Ahmad Amer 13 Jan 2021	Emma Richardson 15 Jan 2021	9
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
Moodle 3.10 - Failed to find an answer matching "" in the question_answers database table	Peter Svec 31 Dec 2020	Ken Task 2 Jan 2021	7
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
Restoring backup into course should not delete previous backups	Francis Joseph Serina 8 Dec 2020	Emma Richardson 8 Dec 2020	2
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
Abort a restore in process pending	Bernat Martinez 9 Sep 2020	Marc Bernat Martínez 29 Sep 2020	2
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
[3.9.1]Automated backup Emails	Richard van Iwaarden 7 Sep 2020	Ken Task 19 Sep 2020	6
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
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
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

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