29/Respaldo del curso

Nota del traductor: La frase inglesa backup se tradujo como Copia de seguridad en el Español internacional y como respaldo en el Español de México.

Un curso puede guardarse con algunas o todas sus partes mediante el respaldo del curso. Típicamente, el adminsitrador del sitio configurará una agenda para Respaldo de curso automatizado para todo el sitio. Un maestro con privilegios de edición puede crear un respaldo o descargar un respaldo existente, para salvaguardarlo, o para usarlo en otro sitio Moodle.

Respaldando un curso

Schema selection, no user data selected in initial settings

To backup a course

1. Go to Settings > Course administration > Backup
2. Initial settings - Select activities, blocks, filters and other items as required then click the Next button. Users with appropriate permissions, such as administrators and managers, can choose whether to include users, anonymize user information, or include user role assignments, user files, comments, user completion details, course logs and grade history in the backup.
3. Schema settings - Select/deselect specific items to include in backup then click the Next button
4. Confirmation and review - Check that everything is as required, using the Previous button if necessary, otherwise click the 'Perform backup' button
5. Complete - Click the Continue button

A backup file (with distinctive .mbz extension to avoid confusion with .zip files) is then saved in the course backup area.

Backup in Moodle 2.0 video:

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Anonymizing user information

Anonymize user information is a backup feature which "protects user identities" by making each user anonymous. If this box is checked in the backup initial settings, Moodle will substitute aliases for real names, substituting @example.com e-mail addresses and so forth. For example "Max Manager" might become "anonfirstname4 anonlastname4".

Backup and restore from 1.9 to 2

Courses created in 1.9 can be backed up and then restored into a 2.1 Moodle or later but blocks are not currently restored and nor is user data (such as forum posts, grades, submissions etc)

Tips and tricks

• Lose content after a restore in Moodle 2.0 ? Do you see topic headings that say "Orphaned activities"? Solution: Go to course settings and increase the number of topic sections and things will return to normal.

Creative uses

The backup and restore processes can offer the teacher and administrators many creative solutions.

• Duplicating courses or specific activities in one course to another course (similar to Import)
• Updating a production Moodle site course, with material from a localhost site course
• Transferring a course to a new Moodle site.
• In earlier versions of Moodle, a way of rolling a course forward without past student activity
• Creating a blank activity, save just that activity and then restore it to the course or another course one or more times.

General backup defaults

Default settings for course backups can be set by a site administrator in Settings > Site administration > Courses > Backups > General backup defaults.

Selected settings may be locked, so that they cannot be changed when creating a course backup.

By selecting a time in the "Keep logs for.." dropdown, it is possible to specify how long backup logs information is kept before being deleted. As this information may be very large, it is recommended the length of time chosen be quite short.

Course backup capabilities

• Anonymise user data on backup
• Backup courses
• Backup sections
• Backup for hub
• Backup for import
• Configure backup options
• Download files from backup areas
• Backup user data

See also

• Course restore
• Backup of user data
• Activity backup