Backup and restore

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Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies
Done with backup/restore Locked	Aviation Safety (Keanu) 11 Nov 2019	Aviation Safety (Keanu) 14 Nov 2019	16
Large course backup and restore to another platform Locked	Lazaros Sotiriadis 20 Nov 2019	Lazaros Sotiriadis 20 Nov 2019	0
Back up issue - Unfinished Locked	Bianca Grin 21 Nov 2019	Séverin Terrier 21 Nov 2019	2
Automatic Backups Not Working - No History Visible Locked	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
Database dump - activity tags missing Locked	Louisa van der Linden 29 Nov 2019	Ken Task 30 Nov 2019	1
Restore problem Locked	Russell Thomson 2 Dec 2019	Ken Task 5 Dec 2019	16
Course restore via moosh fails Locked	Simon Brock 5 Dec 2019	Simon Brock 5 Dec 2019	0
Off site backups on a zero budget Locked	James Steerpike 10 Dec 2019	James Steerpike 10 Dec 2019	0
"You can only restore front page backups on the front page" Locked	Emil Isaac 9 Dec 2019	Emma Richardson 12 Dec 2019	3
Error 404/URL on Backup/Restore/Import button click Locked	Wilmari van der Merwe 13 Dec 2019	Wilmari van der Merwe 13 Dec 2019	0
Who gets the report of the automated course backup? Can I change that? Locked	Visvanath Ratnaweera 16 Aug 2019	Visvanath Ratnaweera 20 Dec 2019	5
Restoring course that was deleted - HELP! Locked	Mor P 4 Jan 2020	Mor P 5 Jan 2020	5
Moodle temp/backup folder keeps consuming disk space Locked	Hosein Naseri 1 Feb 2018	Ijaz Hussain 7 Jan 2020	38
2.7.20 course restore to 3.6.7 enrolled users and user data missing Locked	Chris Loweth 6 Jan 2020	Ray Hinton 10 Jan 2020	5
File system repo files related activities empty upon restore or import Locked	Louisa van der Linden 13 Jan 2020	Louisa van der Linden 15 Jan 2020	3
Moodle does not restore IMSCC 1.2 backup. Locked	Diego Mejía 17 Jan 2020	Stephen Bourget 18 Jan 2020	1
Automatic Backup Override for a Single Course	Darren Foulds 30 Jan 2020	Séverin Terrier 4 Feb 2020	1
Error email from root	April Hayman 13 Feb 2020	Visvanath Ratnaweera 13 Feb 2020	1
Auto Backup file download	Chris Swaffield 13 Feb 2020	Chris Swaffield 13 Feb 2020	0
Probs with course backups	Doug Henner 13 Feb 2020	Doug Henner 13 Feb 2020	0
error/AJAX commands.php: Bad slot.....	James Roberts 26 Feb 2020	James Roberts 26 Feb 2020	0
Backup create empty entry (filename=".") in mdl_files table	Nicolas Dalpe 26 Feb 2020	Ken Task 28 Feb 2020	3
Manually clearing automated backup status of RUNNING	Bobby Siegfried 26 Feb 2020	Ken Task 28 Feb 2020	12
backup/restore of course image	Scott Krajewski 29 Feb 2020	Scott Krajewski 2 Mar 2020	2
How to import old log backup	Kelvin Ma 4 Mar 2020	Thorsten Bartel 5 Mar 2020	2
Moodle 3.6- Restore error "Trying to restore user XXXX from backup file will cause conflict"	Aarthi Ramesh 11 Mar 2020	Aarthi Ramesh 11 Mar 2020	0
Error when making course back up: "error/cannot_finish_ui_if_not_setting_ui"	María Gonzalez 20 Mar 2020	Ken Task 20 Mar 2020	1
Course Backup Error Unknown Column in mdl_ltiservice_gradebookservices	David McMurtry 22 Mar 2020	Matteo Scaramuccia 22 Mar 2020	1
Error while importing translated course	Jahanzaib Chishti 24 Mar 2020	Jahanzaib Chishti 24 Mar 2020	0
Error 1412: Table definition has changed	Bente Olsen 24 Mar 2020	Bente Olsen 24 Mar 2020	0
Automated Backups are taking more time to create	Alain Raap 24 Mar 2020	Alain Raap 27 Mar 2020	2
re-located the path of course backup data to another server	Eno TV 24 Mar 2020	Mirko Đukić 31 Mar 2020	7
Error during restore	Russell Thomson 3 Apr 2020	Russell Thomson 3 Apr 2020	2
Unable to back up course in ver 2.7	Bruce Wilbee 4 Apr 2020	Ken Task 4 Apr 2020	3
Restore Error	Tim F 7 Apr 2020	Tim F 7 Apr 2020	0
Common Cartridge Backup issue	Chris Nelson 8 Apr 2020	Colin Fraser 9 Apr 2020	1
Automated backups: Maximum number of backups kept	Marius S 29 Mar 2020	Marius S 13 Apr 2020	4
Does automated backups script handle files of deleted courses	Nadirshah Ferozepurwalla 20 Apr 2020	Nadirshah Ferozepurwalla 20 Apr 2020	0
importing without changing anything in the target course	Ahmad Amer 23 Apr 2020	Ahmad Amer 23 Apr 2020	0
Restore Course from cli using admin/cli/restore.php	Lazaros Sotiriadis 8 Dec 2019	Séverin Terrier 24 Apr 2020	53
Rare backup restore error when connecting server	David Delgado 27 Apr 2020	Ken Task 28 Apr 2020	3
Backup via CLI	Gabriel Fernández 24 Apr 2020	Ken Task 29 Apr 2020	7
Course backups - include logs or not	Pedro Martins De Torre 29 Apr 2020	Acqua Alta 2 May 2020	2
Automated backup setup can't write in mounted folder (centos)	Mirko Đukić 29 Apr 2020	Visvanath Ratnaweera 4 May 2020	3
Logs that show whether Activity data was reset?	Jack Murray 1 May 2020	Séverin Terrier 5 May 2020	1
Make exact duplicate of the course	Asko Pesola 10 May 2020	Asko Pesola 10 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
Redirect to Error Page During Course Restore	Megatrend Solution 28 Apr 2020	Megatrend Solution 14 May 2020	1
Move students to another course	José Luis Vita 22 May 2020	Emma Richardson 22 May 2020	1
Serialized backup controller is too large	Peter Miller 23 May 2020	Peter Miller 23 May 2020	1
Import course data from one exact course	Andrej Stančík 25 May 2020	Emma Richardson 26 May 2020	1
Strange error while course restore	Doug Henner 27 May 2020	Ken Task 27 May 2020	1
Moodle size is too large	praveen kota 14 Aug 2019	Nelson C 1 Jun 2020	5
Missing saved draft	Nitin Yalamanchali 8 Jun 2020	Nitin Yalamanchali 8 Jun 2020	0
Report logins and logouts	Dino Farese 9 Jun 2020	Ken Task 9 Jun 2020	4
"Automated backup status" emails - How to enable?	Acqua Alta 11 Jun 2020	Acqua Alta 11 Jun 2020	2
[3.7]Course backup process no longer working	Richard van Iwaarden 29 Oct 2019	Richard van Iwaarden 14 Jun 2020	4
Automated course backups	Madelyne de Bruin 15 Jun 2020	Madelyne de Bruin 15 Jun 2020	4
Cloned Moodle-Server redirects to old URL	Niclas G 19 Jun 2020	Niclas G 22 Jun 2020	2
Invisible automated course backups	Dominic Myers 12 Jun 2020	Dominic Myers 24 Jun 2020	4
[3.7] Extract course backup files from moodledata	Marius S 15 Jun 2020	Ken Task 25 Jun 2020	3
[3.7] Maximum file size for restoring course	Richard van Iwaarden 18 May 2020	Richard van Iwaarden 27 Jun 2020	11
Automated backup file location	Gabriel Vasilescu 1 Jul 2020	James Steerpike 4 Jul 2020	5
After resetting course, assignfeedback_editpdf is full	Zigor Astarbe 7 Jul 2020	Zigor Astarbe 7 Jul 2020	1
copy a large .mbz to the local moodle	Andreas Kieninger 8 Jul 2020	Andreas Kieninger 8 Jul 2020	2
[3.9] Mid-year previous year / temporary course restore	Thomas Renard 4 Jul 2020	Ken Task 8 Jul 2020	3
Grade Categories/Weights disappear when backup is restored	William Hunter 22 Jul 2020	William Hunter 22 Jul 2020	0
Streamline/speed up Restore process by adding one button	Nathan Lind 27 Jul 2020	Nathan Lind 27 Jul 2020	0
The backup of a course download with 0 bytes.	Francisco Gómez 20 Jun 2020	Francisco Gómez 1 Aug 2020	8
Asynchronous restore - no error messages	Howard Miller 30 Jul 2020	Howard Miller 1 Aug 2020	1
backup users and video protected	Alessandro Erre 23 Jul 2020	Acqua Alta 2 Aug 2020	4
Restore big Course which where uploaded to the server by ftp	Irith Herman 6 Aug 2020	Ken Task 7 Aug 2020	2
Restore stops, no error messages.	Stan Shap 4 Aug 2020	James Steerpike 12 Aug 2020	1
Category-context questions are copied to course-context, why?	Jari Vilkman 13 Aug 2020	Jari Vilkman 17 Aug 2020	2
Automated backups unfinished	Bernat Martinez 17 Aug 2020	Bernat Martinez 17 Aug 2020	2
Changing upload_max_filesize in php.ini is not working	Walter Byrd 26 Aug 2020	Walter Byrd 26 Aug 2020	1
Accidentally cancelled moosh course-backup, now backups don't work	Jonathan Tsoi 26 Aug 2020	Jonathan Tsoi 27 Aug 2020	1
Question type supported in IMS CC export	Allison Soo 27 Aug 2020	Dan Marsden 28 Aug 2020	1
Dealing with course restores with users	Aaron Batty 27 Aug 2020	Aaron Batty 28 Aug 2020	3
Issue : Import only a few sections from one course into another	Guillaume Tschupp 28 Aug 2020	Guillaume Tschupp 28 Aug 2020	0
Automatic Backup fails and manual backup does not complete	Alexander Gres 19 Aug 2020	Ken Task 30 Aug 2020	9
"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
How do I delete old Course backups?	Conrad Bucsis 31 Aug 2020	Conrad Bucsis 31 Aug 2020	0
Comparison of Course Restore/Copy Options	Aletha Williams 5 Sep 2020	John Provasnik 6 Sep 2020	1
"Error writing to database"	cyber sec 6 Sep 2020	cyber sec 6 Sep 2020	2
Hidden Topic settings not carrying over during Restore	David Gilder 8 Sep 2020	Helen Foster 8 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
Backup of moodle installation folder	omid hamedi 10 Sep 2020	Thorsten Bartel 11 Sep 2020	1
Backup and resetting a course	Dylan Lewis 14 Sep 2020	Dylan Lewis 14 Sep 2020	0
User Restore not working	Ewelyn Felice 17 Sep 2020	Ken Task 17 Sep 2020	1
[3.9] Automated backups consumes all disk space and trashdir is full	Marius S 23 Aug 2020	Alain Raap 17 Sep 2020	23
Logs of course reset operations	Yasir Mehmood 17 Sep 2020	Yasir Mehmood 17 Sep 2020	0
Automated backups schedule - which setting is used - Automated backup setup or Automated backups ...	Nejc Razdrih 17 Sep 2020	Emma Richardson 17 Sep 2020	1
[3.9.1]Automated backup Emails	Richard van Iwaarden 7 Sep 2020	Ken Task 19 Sep 2020	6
Error when backing up	Gary Newport 20 Sep 2020	Gary Newport 20 Sep 2020	1
Backups Pending, never executing.	Ian Anderson 22 Sep 2020	Ivica Matotek 24 Sep 2020	2
Unstoppable automated backups in 3.5	Mike Kelly 26 Sep 2020	Ken Task 27 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
Abort a restore in process pending	Bernat Martinez 9 Sep 2020	Marc Bernat Martínez 29 Sep 2020	2
Restore quizzes from SQL dump	Boštjan Gabrovšek 30 Sep 2020	Boštjan Gabrovšek 30 Sep 2020	5