October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
15h 34m
English
Your Moodle application will contain important data such as coursework, assignments, grades, and all administrative data, for example, users, cohorts, and roles. Therefore, you must have a good backup strategy in place.
Preparing for the unexpected is always a good strategy when dealing with information systems, and having well-preserved backups allows for full application recovery upon unexpected hardware or software failures. Systems are not expected to fail, but there’s always a possibility for failure, and a good strategy for fast recovery ensures a low impact on users. This chapter presents strategies and options for managing backups and auto-backups of your data.
Moodle itself supports ...