

Skipped - The course was skipped (not backed up) because the course was unavailable to students and had not been changed in the last 31 days.OK - The course backup was successfully completed.This log is useful for troubleshooting backup errors. It displays a list of all course backups made, the time taken to create them, their status (see below), and the next scheduled automated backup execution time.Ĭlicking the 'View logs' icon next to the course name (1 in screenshot below) will display a detailed backup log for a particular course, including date, hour and minute when each step of the backup was performed (2). Once the backup is complete, Moodle will send you an email describing the status of the backup.Ī last execution log of scheduled course backups can be found in Administration > Site administration > Reports > Backups. Once you've set up your backup schedule, Moodle will automatically create archives of all the courses on the server at the time you specified. (The settings 'Delete backups older than' and 'Minimum number of backups kept' are new in Moodle 3.0 onwards.) If so, you should also specify a minimum number of backups to be kept. Tip: To save disk space, you can choose to delete backups older than a specified number of days. If the path is not recognized a red X is shown after saving, otherwise a green check.
AUTOMATED DISK ARCHIVE WINDOWS
On Windows the path might look like: D:\Archive\. On a Linux server the path might look like: /home/(your user or domain)/public_html/archive/ or if it's below the publicly accessible folders: /home/(your user or domain)/archive/.
AUTOMATED DISK ARCHIVE ZIP
If you leave the field blank, then backup zip files will be saved in the backup folder of each course files folder. You don't want to lose your backups at the same time you lose your Moodle site if the drive fails. If you can, choose a backup path on another machine or on a different drive than the one Moodle is on. Keep in mind the time zone your server is using. For most servers, early morning will be the best time. Set the execution time for the backup process.Select the days of the week to run the backup.Go to Administration > Site administration > Courses > Backups > Automated backup setup.Setting an automated course backup schedule In order to make scheduled backups, you have to set up CRON to run periodically. You should always alert users with an announcement on the first page that if they log on during the backup hours they may notice a decrease in performance. Running the backup tool over all the courses can be processor-intensive, so you shouldn't run it when there are a lot of students trying to access the server. It's a good idea to schedule backups for when your server isn't usually busy. 2 Setting an automated course backup scheduleĪutomated course backups runs the same functions as individual course backups.
