The importance of Moodle backups
There is a phrase, or it may even be a brand slogan that says, "If it's worth creating, it's worth backing up". And from my...
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Moodle and e-commerce shopping carts
Linking Moodle to a web based shopping cart is easy and requires very little coding to allow users to browse courses, add them to a...
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Block Building for Moodle 2
This year, instead of hacking the Moodle core to death we have decided to stick with core Moodle code, and this time we have put...
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Bug fixing week (Moodle 2)
This week I finally found some time to sit in front of my computer and address some of the niggly little glitches that have arisen...
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My Moodle 2.0 Upgrade Journey Part 4 (Final)
Moodle 2.0 is now live at the Leeds City College! It's been a very busy week but we finally got there. It's by no means...
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My Moodle 2.0 Upgrade Journey Part 3
Well today I finally set about upgrading the Leeds City College Production Server and it has been quite an eventful day. After making the necessary...
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My Moodle 2.0 Upgrade Journey Part 2
For this next part of the process I copied my Moodle 1.9 installation to a local development server. But to save time I didn’t copy the entire MoodleData folder as it’s over 160GB. I only copied the first 20 folders.
As I wouldn’t be using LDAP on this test server (yet!) I changed my admin account to a manual account so I didn’t lock myself out.
I then flushed out the htdocs folder and copied the Moodle 2.0 installation files across so that I had a clean install with no modifications and ran the install script.