You won’t need it now but I guarantee when you least expect it, someone will accidentally delete a course that they shouldn’t have been deleted and you will be desperate to find a way to get it back.

Moodle has a built in system to backup your courses. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PLENTY OF SPACE ON YOUR SERVER.

Go to: Site administration > Courses > Backups > Automated backup setup

Look through the settings, check that you have enough space to run the backups then run them at least once a week and keep at least 2 copies of each course.

You’re welcome…

Settings

• Set to ACTIVE Enabled
• Select the day to schedule the backup
• Set the time to run the backup in Execute At

• If you are not sure where to store backups, leave the settings as Course Backup File Area
• Select Max number of backups to 2 if you have plenty of space on your sever.
• Minimum number of backups kept to 1 (this will make sure all courses have at least one backup)
  

• Then SAVE your changes

  Now wait until the server has run the backup at the scheduled data and time.

  Once the backup has been run you can check by: 

• Going into a course and selecting the COG on the right

• Then select the restore menu item

• You should see an automated course backup at the bottom of the backups area.

NOTE: You do NOT need to restore this course now. This was just to check the backup is working.