Semester-End Transition (Back-up and Restore)

There are three types of backup (copies) of Moodle courses.

1. Server backup by UTS of the entire system: These can't be used to find individual courses but exist in case of emergency to the entire system.
2. End of the semester backups: These are your individual courses. These are the archives and e-LIS can search them for specific courses, identifiable by their CRN. It is a good practice, in addition, for you to make a backup of all courses at the end of the semester and download them to your computer.
3. Faculty backups: These are your best protection. You can create copies of your entire course at any time, download to your own computer, and then restore the content to a new shell the next semester or anytime in case some data was accidentally lost by you or your students.

Empty course shells will be automatically transferred from Banner one month before classes start each semester. You will need to restore old course content to this new course shell.

Students will be automatically imported from Banner one week before a new semester starts and then continuously updated.

Backups

• From the homepage, click on Backup under the Administration area.
• Choose what tools to include
• Faculty lost data backup--if you want to use this copy to restore your course to a former state (perhaps you deleted someone's files by mistake), then keep All UserData. Make certain to choose No for Metacourse and Yes for Course Files as depicted below. Click Continue.
• Faculty end-of-semester backup-- if you want to use this content for next semester, click on None for UserData. Make certain to choose No for Metacourse and Yes for Course Files as depicted below. Click Continue.

• The next screen gives you a name of the zip backup and number of files copied. Click Continue.

• You will then see the results of the backup and it should say, Backup Completed Successfully.

• Your backupdata folder in your Files directory will appear with the zip file. Click on it's name to download and save to your computer. Don't open it. Some browsers might try to open it automatically, so instead save it to your desktop.

Restore

• Enter your new course and from the homepage, click on Restore under Administration. This will take you to the backupdata file in your File Database. Click Upload a file.

• Browse your local computer for the .zip backup copy of your previous semester's course content. and then choose Open and click Upload this File.

Check the box next to the zip file and then click Restore. Choose Yes when asked whether to Continue.

A screen will show what has been restored so far. Click Continue again.

Choose Existing Course, deleting it first. Click Continue.

****Note, if you choose Existing Course, adding data to it, some of your data may not be imported properly.

Click Restore This Course Now. All the files that have been successfully restored will appear and at the bottom it will say, Restore Completed Successfully. Click Continue and you'll be at your restored course's homepage. From the homepage, click on Participants and check to make certain that your students are still there. If not, contact, online@oakland.edu.