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About course backup areas

 
Dhairya Kapadia
About course backup areas
by Dhairya Kapadia - Tuesday, 2 April 2024, 11:03 PM
Group Partners

I was reading more about the backup areas and as per my understanding - the private backup area is visible to the user who created the backup but does not contain user data.

However i am interested in course backups that capture all data.

What directories can I specify if not the default backup area?

Is there some sort of directory structure ?

Also where are the files stored by default ? How can I access those files from my Totara LMS itself ?

Craig Eves
Re: About course backup areas
by Craig Eves (Totara Support) - Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 7:37 PM
Group Totara

Hi Dhairya

The private backup area contains course backups that have anonymised user information and are available to admin users

When you hover over the file in the course backup they are stored at http://sitename/pluginfile.php/999/backup/course/

The private files are stored on http://sitename /pluginfile.php/999/user/backup/ where 999 is a numeric folder

The course files are not directly accessible through the database you need to go through the backuup interface in Totara to download or restore.

It is possible to create an automated course backup and specify where to save to including an external drive

regards