Backup and restore

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Documentation on how the detail workings of the backup and restore work? Locked	Mr. Marc 30 May 2012	Mr. Marc 30 May 2012
Restore error Locked	Dave Emsley 30 May 2012	Dave Emsley 30 May 2012
Restore to Non Top Level Course Category Locked	Adi Tedjasaputra 14 Jun 2012	Adi Tedjasaputra 14 Jun 2012
2.1 Course Backup won't Restore into 2.2.3 Locked	Richard MacLemale 20 Jun 2012	Richard MacLemale 20 Jun 2012
Encryption/Decryption of the backup file Locked	Jan Eberhardt 21 Jun 2012	Jan Eberhardt 21 Jun 2012
Automated backup is working fine but... Locked	Emadof Tosen 27 Jun 2012	Emadof Tosen 27 Jun 2012
Moodle 1.9 Course Restore Error Locked	Linda Bellomo 29 Jun 2012	Linda Bellomo 29 Jun 2012
Restoring Course to 2.2.3 Created on 2.0.7 and on a different server Locked	Gary Lebowitz 29 Jun 2012	Gary Lebowitz 29 Jun 2012
Restore 1.9 Course to 2.3 stopping Locked	A. John Peters 29 Jun 2012	A. John Peters 29 Jun 2012
2.2.3 activities not being included in course restoration Locked	Zachary DeLand 4 Jul 2012	Zachary DeLand 4 Jul 2012
Having trouble merging user data into archive Locked	Laureen Ferry 5 Jul 2012	Laureen Ferry 5 Jul 2012
restore courses in 2.31 Locked	ces moce 10 Jul 2012	ces moce 10 Jul 2012
Error when restoring Moodle hub course (M 2.2.3) Locked	Roger Handyside 12 Jul 2012	Roger Handyside 12 Jul 2012
restoring modle(2.0.7) course backup data file size bigger than 150 MB Locked	nilesh k 12 Jul 2012	nilesh k 12 Jul 2012
Backup times out Locked	Margaret Richards 17 Jul 2012	Margaret Richards 17 Jul 2012
Enrolment from Restore 1.9 to 2.2 Locked	Toni Roberts 17 Jul 2012	Toni Roberts 17 Jul 2012
facing issue while upgrading moodle 1.9 to moodle 2.2 Locked	Sankar Mahadevan 17 Jul 2012	Sankar Mahadevan 17 Jul 2012
Backup and restore fails for courses in 1.9 to 2.3 Locked	Remy Olasoji 17 Jul 2012	Remy Olasoji 17 Jul 2012
error when restoring 2.1 course to 2.3 Locked	Brandon Hutchins 18 Jul 2012	Brandon Hutchins 18 Jul 2012
Automated backups - Resources not included Locked	Nick Gault 23 Jul 2012	Nick Gault 23 Jul 2012
Moodle 2.0 to 2.2 upgrade experience - Hostgator using Fantastico Locked	Michael Chan 23 Jul 2012	Michael Chan 23 Jul 2012
Pulling Human Readable files out of backup Locked	Tobias Gelston 30 Jul 2012	Tobias Gelston 30 Jul 2012
Automated Backup Failes - Locked	Fred Weiss 2 Aug 2012	Fred Weiss 2 Aug 2012
Solution to restoring large course from 1.9 to 2.3 Locked	Debbie Unterseher 9 Aug 2012	Debbie Unterseher 9 Aug 2012
Backup fails with "Can not read file, either file does not exist or there are permission problems" Locked	Enid Newberg 11 Aug 2012	Enid Newberg 11 Aug 2012
Topic Objects - Backup and Restore Locked	Mark Storey 14 Aug 2012	Mark Storey 14 Aug 2012
Backing up stuff not in an activity format Locked	Justin Reeve 15 Aug 2012	Justin Reeve 15 Aug 2012
Restoring 1.9 courses into 2.3... file links broken Locked	Adrian Baker 17 Aug 2012	Adrian Baker 17 Aug 2012
Backing up only select courses Locked	Chris Lewis 17 Aug 2012	Chris Lewis 17 Aug 2012
Error when exporting/importing between courses Locked	Steve Rippl 22 Aug 2012	Steve Rippl 22 Aug 2012
Gradeitem after duplication Locked	Juergen Zimmer 22 Aug 2012	Juergen Zimmer 22 Aug 2012
Issues of restoring a course - assigned teachers & the welcome message Locked	Penny Pearson 23 Aug 2012	Penny Pearson 23 Aug 2012
How to figure out what plugins are needed by a given course Locked	Janine Hempy 25 Aug 2012	Janine Hempy 25 Aug 2012
Teacher can't get to backup download area if restricted from restoring Locked	James Henestofel 31 Aug 2012	James Henestofel 31 Aug 2012
MDL 2.3.1 Automated backup in Specified Area NOT WORKING Locked	Nilesh Kulkarni 3 Sep 2012	Nilesh Kulkarni 3 Sep 2012
Backup doesn't work in 2.3 in my site Locked	Pieter Vorstenbosch 5 Sep 2012	Pieter Vorstenbosch 5 Sep 2012
Automated Backup Issues Locked	Graeme Stobbart 5 Sep 2012	Graeme Stobbart 5 Sep 2012
2.3.1+ - Restore Removing Users/Data Locked	Matt Bowler 5 Sep 2012	Matt Bowler 5 Sep 2012
emails for automatic backups Locked	Andrew Golightly 10 Sep 2012	Andrew Golightly 10 Sep 2012
"Sorry, but you do not currently have permission to do that (edit)" error on attempt to restore a... Locked	Youcef Oubraham 14 Sep 2012	Youcef Oubraham 14 Sep 2012
Restorin from 1.9 to 2.3 couses css and picture broken link Locked	Ivica Matotek 17 Sep 2012	Ivica Matotek 17 Sep 2012
Restore/Import a Flexpages course ... Locked	Ronald Connal 22 Sep 2012	Ronald Connal 22 Sep 2012
Backup of 2.3.2+ with User data and Restore to another 2.3.2+ server fails Locked	Viettrung Nguyen - Luong 24 Sep 2012	Viettrung Nguyen - Luong 24 Sep 2012
Course Backup and Roles Locked	Dorian Borg 26 Sep 2012	Dorian Borg 26 Sep 2012
API Locked	Dexter Bernard Angeles 28 Sep 2012	Dexter Bernard Angeles 28 Sep 2012
Issue in loading CSS file Locked	Suresh Dhanakotti 30 Sep 2012	Suresh Dhanakotti 30 Sep 2012
Duplicate Blocks appearing upon Backup & Restore process Locked	Chris Schembri Baldacchino 2 Oct 2012	Chris Schembri Baldacchino 2 Oct 2012
moodle 2.0 course import and backup problem Locked	hina yousuf 2 Oct 2012	hina yousuf 2 Oct 2012
Why an automatically backuped course is skipped only after 30 days ? Locked	Benjamin SECLIER 2 Oct 2012	Benjamin SECLIER 2 Oct 2012
Automated backup skips hidden courses Locked	Conrad Hill-Knight 2 Oct 2012	Conrad Hill-Knight 2 Oct 2012
Detailed Backup Logs Locked	Paul Mohabir 14 Oct 2012	Paul Mohabir 14 Oct 2012
Restoring file aliases in a Moodle 2.3 course Locked	Benjamin Young 27 Oct 2012	Benjamin Young 27 Oct 2012
No files have been selected to restore Locked	parveen kumar 28 Oct 2012	parveen kumar 28 Oct 2012
Desperate about automated backups in moodle2.1.5 "Exception: 'mdl_backup_ids_temp' already exists." Locked	Raúl González Álvarez 30 Oct 2012	Raúl González Álvarez 30 Oct 2012
An error occurred while backing up quiz categories Locked	Irith Herman 5 Nov 2012	Irith Herman 5 Nov 2012
Table "backup_ids_temp" already exists Locked	Darren Dickson 7 Nov 2012	Darren Dickson 7 Nov 2012
Error while restoring; backup file lost Locked	Yvonne van Lingen 10 Nov 2012	Yvonne van Lingen 10 Nov 2012
Migration Error m19 -> m2.3 Locked	Peter Easton 10 Nov 2012	Peter Easton 10 Nov 2012
Restoration of 2.2.3 to 2.2.6 Locked	R.T. Brown 22 Nov 2012	R.T. Brown 22 Nov 2012
Cant enable backup:userinfo for teachers role. 1.9.8 Locked	Job Cespedes 1 Dec 2012	Job Cespedes 1 Dec 2012
location of auto backups in database moodle 2.3 Locked	Ken Stokowski 1 Dec 2012	Ken Stokowski 1 Dec 2012
Local backup Locked	Francisco Pérez 4 Dec 2012	Francisco Pérez 4 Dec 2012
I can't restore my course Locked	Julien Thomas 7 Dec 2012	Julien Thomas 7 Dec 2012
Restoring multiple courses at once Locked	Emma Richardson 8 Dec 2012	Emma Richardson 8 Dec 2012
Problems with images in activity modules when restoring a course backup Locked	Luis Vázquez de Lara 10 Dec 2012	Luis Vázquez de Lara 10 Dec 2012
Can't import backup Locked	Vernellia Randall 12 Dec 2012	Vernellia Randall 12 Dec 2012
Images missing when restoring a single course from 1.96 to 2.3 Locked	Irith Herman 13 Dec 2012	Irith Herman 13 Dec 2012
Finding last modification of a course Locked	Benjamin SECLIER 13 Dec 2012	Benjamin SECLIER 13 Dec 2012
Manual backup is not working Locked	Rubens Almeida 23 Dec 2012	Rubens Almeida 23 Dec 2012
Restore Process Deleted Course Backups in Course Backup Area Locked	Mike Shurance 3 Jan 2013	Mike Shurance 3 Jan 2013
erreur : "error/missing_common_question_field" Locked	Faicel Brinis 8 Jan 2013	Faicel Brinis 8 Jan 2013
Restore failing in 2.4 Locked	David Ha 9 Jan 2013	David Ha 9 Jan 2013
No Moodledata folder Locked	Simon Hall 14 Jan 2013	Simon Hall 14 Jan 2013
Backup Course in Moodle 2.2 error Locked	Sai Aung Lin 14 Jan 2013	Sai Aung Lin 14 Jan 2013
Looking for a complete solution for DR Locked	Mr. Marc 15 Jan 2013	Mr. Marc 15 Jan 2013
Copia de seguridad Locked	Herman Van de Velde 16 Jan 2013	Herman Van de Velde 16 Jan 2013
problems in restoring 1.96 to 2.14 Locked	Irith Herman 27 Jan 2013	Irith Herman 27 Jan 2013
Problem in zip file when backuping course Locked	Irith Herman 29 Jan 2013	Irith Herman 29 Jan 2013
restore files Locked	tim st.clair 30 Jan 2013	tim st.clair 30 Jan 2013
import moodle 1.9.7 course to moodle 2.3.1 system Locked	marc helfano 31 Jan 2013	marc helfano 31 Jan 2013
Problem with links in web pages Locked	Bob Brown 1 Feb 2013	Bob Brown 1 Feb 2013
Backup just isn't working Locked	Csaba Gloner 3 Feb 2013	Csaba Gloner 3 Feb 2013
Restore courses from local files on server Locked	Shawn Campbell 3 Feb 2013	Shawn Campbell 3 Feb 2013
Help, Can't Restore course from backup. Locked	Timothy Byers 4 Feb 2013	Timothy Byers 4 Feb 2013
permisos del dataroot Locked	ruddy argenis 9 Feb 2013	ruddy argenis 9 Feb 2013
Error when restoring course backup (only one course) Locked	Sven Laudel 14 Feb 2013	Sven Laudel 14 Feb 2013
moodle 2.2 error tryin to restore a course Locked	Javier Jauregui 19 Feb 2013	Javier Jauregui 19 Feb 2013
Automatic backup and restore to other moodle instence Locked	chathuri Gunathunga 20 Feb 2013	chathuri Gunathunga 20 Feb 2013
[1.9] Cron courses' backup error - categories and questions Locked	Eder dos Santos 26 Feb 2013	Eder dos Santos 26 Feb 2013
Moodle 2.4 Windows which user Locked	Heather P 1 Mar 2013	Heather P 1 Mar 2013
Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: PHP catchable fatal error Locked	Terra Graves 5 Mar 2013	Terra Graves 5 Mar 2013
I hope this helps moodle users to locate their moodle 2.x data Locked	Lawrence N 6 Mar 2013	Lawrence N 6 Mar 2013
Backup Screen Does Not Appear for 1 Course - Moodle 2.4.1 Locked	Dan O'Reilly 8 Mar 2013	Dan O'Reilly 8 Mar 2013
Backup and restore Course (programmatically) Locked	Viktor Zimmermann 13 Mar 2013	Viktor Zimmermann 13 Mar 2013
import_course call error: Invalid parameter value detected: Only arrays accepted. Locked	Alan Zaitchik 15 Mar 2013	Alan Zaitchik 15 Mar 2013
course restore fails with Error code: file_invalid_path Locked	Heather P 19 Mar 2013	Heather P 19 Mar 2013
Moodle 2.4.3 green tick - does it mean yes or no? Locked	Heather P 19 Mar 2013	Heather P 19 Mar 2013
Last Access information wrong after restore Locked	CoreDev Develop 22 Mar 2013	CoreDev Develop 22 Mar 2013
Automatic backup not starting Locked	Heather P 22 Mar 2013	Heather P 22 Mar 2013
Hacking the Moodle 2.0 database transfer script to convert a Moodle 1.9 site Locked	Visvanath Ratnaweera 23 Mar 2013	Visvanath Ratnaweera 23 Mar 2013