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The individual course backups are the most important - they can be restored to another moodle site. We have the moodle standard backup which runs three times a week into a designated folder. These are automatically deleted by moodle's cronjob when the number of backups for each course exceeds 3 (so there are always a week's worth of backups on the main server). The secondary server keeps a copy of this folder using rsync but does not delete the backups which are deleted from the folder on the main server - a shell script then deletes the backups which are over 90 days old. We also have backup routines for the database and the entire primary server. The secondary server takes a weekly fully working copy of the primary server (with some of the config modified by a couple of perl scripts) as failover. The filesystem/db are also copied onto NAS and then tapes on a weekly basis. I like to think this gives us some room for failure but I'd still be annoyed by the inconvenience if any of it failed so the main server is on a RAID5 array. Fingers crossed...

Thanks! No it has been completely written by me and the code was written with the task in mind at the time rather than open sourcing it - something I may think about for the future! The data is stored in a MySQL DB (albeit in a different DB to the moodle tables) and is transferred from CMIS's MSSQL DB at select times during the night via cron tasks. We find that the CMIS DB is too sluggish to use direct access and presents some issues when it comes to exam time (we also release the exam results online). That's something we haven't got around to yet, all our enrolments are done via the Facility to CMIS block, but it's certainly something we're interested in. Thanks for your suggestion! I will be having a look at that when I get some time to experiment! I've removed those now... forgot about that!

Hi All, I've been developing a Student Profile for Moodle 1.9 which integrates with our Facility CMIS database. We'd really appreciate any observations or suggestions you have on how we could improve it, features it is missing, what you do in your school etc. We have an open account for our recent Open Evening and thought this might be a good opportunity The url is Connect - Open Evening and the password is 'rainford'. Many Thanks!

We have the same problem with ours at the moment (Server 2008,Win 7, IE8/9). I've tried disabling PROPFIND and OPTIONS requests in IIS, and adding our intranet site to the 'trusted sites' zone in group policy, but the problem still occurs. This is a problem only on the local network, apparently something to do with WebDAV authentication for sharepoint sites (MS assume all local intranet sites must be sharepoint). So a quick fix if your site has an external URL) would be to take your site's A record out of the internal DNS so that IE thinks it is external.

Hiya, could I have a copy of your code please? It would be really useful for a project I'm currently working on. My email address is jamess /AT/ rainford /DOT/ org /DOT/ uk. Cheers