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This is site admin stuff, and not something a low-tech user would usually be involved in.
This is site admin stuff, and not something a low-tech user would usually be involved in.
Perhaps the starting question should be "What do average teachers need to be able to do in terms of backups?"
Perhaps the starting question should be "What do average teachers need to be able to do in terms of backups?"
I think there are non-techie site admins out there who need this info. Average teachers who have just enough savvy & moxie to be running a school's Moodle. So, I think Stuart is onto something -- "Backup for Non-Techie Site Admins" is getting closer to a title, maybe.

Revision as of 13:13, 23 February 2010

I like this, although "low-tech users" doesn't strike me as quite what I'd like to be called. Maybe "non-Programmers"?

One other item I think needs fixing. The graphic for phpMyAdmin should maybe point explicitly at the Database in top left pane. People who don't know databases might assume that each table is a database and start pointlessly clicking. I very much like the orderly progression of the arrows in the graphic.

I like the instructions under "Another Site Backup," but I think the use of "backup" will confuse non-programmers here. We've just learned how to zip those 2 (or 3) items and now we're setting up a site as a backup? Maybe just stick with "Using your backup to create a test site"?

--Stuart Mealor 20:28, 22 February 2010 (UTC)I think it's worth pointing out that FTP is not really secure. Backing up sites remotely really needs to use rsync or similar (but I don't think that is appropriate for a 'Backup for Low-tech Users' guide). I think the guide needs to make it clear that backups to a different (backup) server may not work correctly as the domain name changes. Agree with the first comment, I don't think this level of backup/restore documentation fits with the 'Backup for Low-tech Users' title. This is site admin stuff, and not something a low-tech user would usually be involved in. Perhaps the starting question should be "What do average teachers need to be able to do in terms of backups?"

I think there are non-techie site admins out there who need this info. Average teachers who have just enough savvy & moxie to be running a school's Moodle. So, I think Stuart is onto something -- "Backup for Non-Techie Site Admins" is getting closer to a title, maybe.