Searchable filesystem

Repositories ::: repository_searchable
Maintained by Jordi Pujol-Ahulló, Daniel Tome Fernandez, Cristian Martinez
A filesystem-based repository focused on searchable capabilities, ideal for directories with lots (thousands) of files at server side.
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Searchable Moodle repository

A filesystem-based repository focused on searchable capabilities, ideal for directories with lots (thousands) of files.

Installation

  1. Clone this repository or unzip the archive into repository/searchable.
  2. Go to Site Administration -> Notifications to install it.

Set up

  1. Go to Site Administration -> Plugins -> Repositories -> Searchable filesystem to:
  2. Set up this repository and user capabilities.
  3. Build instances of searchable repositories pointing to subdirectories under MOODLEDATA/repository/. They can be symlinks or hardlinks.

About this repository

We build course backups from Moodle courses, with thousands of backup files. When trying to mount the directory as a filesystem repository instance, it never ended.

Since we simply needed to pick up some file at a time, we thought on building a repository instance, based on server-side filesystem with searchable capabilities. It may be extensible to users if administrators want to, too.

To do so, we based this repository on the current filesystem repository from the Moodle core, and the ideas behind other searchable repositories.

Author

Jordi Pujol-Ahulló jpahullo@gmail.com

License

GPL 3


Useful links

More documentation on this plugin
Source control URL
Bug tracker
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Contributors

Jordi Pujol-Ahulló (Lead maintainer)
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Daniel Tome Fernandez
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Cristian Martinez
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  • Plugins bot
    Plugins bot
    Sun, 23 Apr 2017, 1:40 AM
    Approval issue created: CONTRIB-6869
  • Wazza
    Richard van Iwaarden
    Thu, 12 Aug 2021, 5:45 PM
    Would it be possible to include directories outside /moodledata/repositories?
    Our course_backup folder is not located there, and I still would like to use this plugin.
  • Jordi Pujol-Ahulló
    Jordi Pujol-Ahulló
    Thu, 12 Aug 2021, 6:11 PM
    Hi! There is an error on the documentation: they can be symlinks. So, if you can make `ln -s /directory/with/course/backups searchable_backups`, then, you can use it. I'll revisit the docs. HTH
  • Jordi Pujol-Ahulló
    Jordi Pujol-Ahulló
    Thu, 12 Aug 2021, 6:15 PM
    We use this repo in our institution using a symlink, because we also don't have backups on the same disc unit than MOODLEDATA. Hoping this helps too.
  • Paul
    Paul Raper
    Thu, 10 Feb 2022, 2:47 AM
    Would it be possible to perhaps search for files in a NextCloud or OwnCloud repository?
  • Jordi Pujol-Ahulló
    Jordi Pujol-Ahulló
    Thu, 10 Feb 2022, 3:48 AM
    Hi! This repository plugin is not intended to search for external cloud systems. However, starting from Moodle 3.6, the cloud systems are supported in core as stated on https://moodle.org/plugins/repository_owncloud. Hoping this helps.
  • Paul
    Paul Raper
    Thu, 10 Feb 2022, 2:05 PM
    They are supported in core that is true, but they are not searchable from with in Moodle. I can search a NextCloud and OwnCloud for anything that is stored on my local disk, but anything someone else has put there I can't search for. It was just a wild thought.
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