Moodle2 backing up courses

[mdrabble]

I am planning on backing up/exporting all moodle courses and importing them into a new moodle installation.

 

Does anyone know of any way of backing up all moodle courses in one easy step?

 

Cheers

[unixman_again]

If you want to clone your moodle, the easiet method is to :

• dump the MySql databse
  
• copy the dump to the new server
  
• copy wwwroot to the new server
  
• copy moodledata to the new server
  
• if your new moodle has a different url, change any urls which are coded to the old url in the mysql dump (I use sed for this)
  
• create a MySql database on the new server
  
• import the dump
  
• change the moodle config file to reflect the new server
  

 

Whenever I'm upgrading moodle, I do the above to that I can practice the upgrade first.

[Guest WMITTech]

Unfortunately moodle is rubbish at this, as you either have to backup each course manually, which is a compete pain. I did develop a script that I can send you that backups everything and places on a remote drive. Changes can be made to your choosing.

 

The other option is Unix_man, who got it pretty smack on. Hope this helps

Edited July 22, 2015 by WMITTech

[3s-gtech]

We use the mySQL dump, files and moodledata backup scripted with WinSCP to automatically backup our Moodle install in case the server dies and we need to build a new install. That should be all you need, alongside the config changes.