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The backup configuration page enables administrators to configure automated course backups and a backup schedule. | Location: ''Administration > Courses > Backups'' | ||
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==Course versus site backups== | |||
*Course backups are more expensive in terms of time and CPU usage. The recovery time to have your site running again is longer. | *Course backups are more expensive in terms of time and CPU usage. The recovery time to have your site running again is longer. | ||
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[[ja:バックアップ (管理者)]] | [[ja:バックアップ (管理者)]] |
Revision as of 19:46, 28 June 2007
Location: Administration > Courses > Backups
The backup configuration page enables administrators to configure automated course backups and a backup schedule.
Course versus site backups
- Course backups are more expensive in terms of time and CPU usage. The recovery time to have your site running again is longer.
- Course backups are useful for obtaining "fresh" copies of courses to be re-used or distributed individually, however they should never be used as a primary backup system (unless your hosting doesn't allow the preferred site backups).
- In order to make scheduled course backups, you have to setup CRON to run periodically. Have a look at Set up cron for details.
- Site backups, as explained in upgrading Moodle, are recommended in order to have all data saved with the best confidence and the shorter recovery time.
- From 1.6 onwards, course backups automatically skip courses which are unavailable to students AND have not been changed in the last month.