Summary
In this chapter, we dealt with various Moodle backup alternatives. You learned how to create course-level, site-level, and system-level backups, as well as how to perform data recovery from each type. Your Moodle backup strategy must fit in with your organization’s overall disaster recovery plan. We also saw some applications that use the covered backup and restore facilities.
Moodle offers a good range of backup and restore options. Ensure that they are configured correctly and run test recoveries to be on the safe(r) side. There is nothing worse than a false sense of security – that is, assuming that all your data is backed up when it isn’t!
In the next chapter, we will cover a collection of useful and not-so-useful Moodle admin tools.
