Managing site-level backups

So far, we have dealt with backing up single courses. Site-level backups perform the same operation for every course in your system, including hidden courses and the home page.

Before we look at backup reports and notifications, we will configure automated backups. We will conclude this section with some backup strategies.

Configuring automated backups

Go to Site administration | Courses | Backups | Automated backup setup to schedule site backups. Here, you will see the following settings:

Figure 16.14 – Automated backup configuration

The remainder of the configuration page covers Automated backup settings, which specify which elements will be included in the backup. These are identical to the initial backup settings, except for the anonymize option, which has been excluded.

For the backup to start automatically at the specified time, the cron process must be configured correctly, which we covered in Chapter 1...