by Visvanath Ratnaweera.
Hi Martin
Did you manage to solve you problem?
If not, here is further clarification: There are fundamentally two ways of continuing a Moodle site in a different place:
1. Backup and restore course by course
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Course_backup
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Course_restore
This requires less technical skills and only Moodle 'admin' acces, but involves more manual work, could be error prone as a result.
You wrote:
> So far I've managed to download closest matching version (2.0.10) and install it on my test linux vm. I'm trying to migrate the current setup and that do the upgrade.
Except that you don't need the old "setup" for the new site.
> So far I havent got access to the hosting account and I'm trying to migrate using backup/restore facility within moodle.
Correct.
> Can you please tell me if it is possible to finish this operation without a full filesystem and database backup or not?
With this method you don't need the database not the files system, the relevant parts come via the *.mbz backup file.
2. Backup and restore the whole site
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Site_backup
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Site_restore
(which is effectively a http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Moodle_migration )
This is what Ken has explained. For this method you need a database dump (backup) and a copy of the filesystem, i.e. you need access to your hosting account, usually one for FTP and one for phpMyAdmin.
Technically more demanding, but you have the whole site in one go and less error prone specially if both Moodle versions are the same (2.0.3).
Did you manage to solve you problem?
If not, here is further clarification: There are fundamentally two ways of continuing a Moodle site in a different place:
1. Backup and restore course by course
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Course_backup
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Course_restore
This requires less technical skills and only Moodle 'admin' acces, but involves more manual work, could be error prone as a result.
You wrote:
> So far I've managed to download closest matching version (2.0.10) and install it on my test linux vm. I'm trying to migrate the current setup and that do the upgrade.
Except that you don't need the old "setup" for the new site.
> So far I havent got access to the hosting account and I'm trying to migrate using backup/restore facility within moodle.
Correct.
> Can you please tell me if it is possible to finish this operation without a full filesystem and database backup or not?
With this method you don't need the database not the files system, the relevant parts come via the *.mbz backup file.
2. Backup and restore the whole site
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Site_backup
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Site_restore
(which is effectively a http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Moodle_migration )
This is what Ken has explained. For this method you need a database dump (backup) and a copy of the filesystem, i.e. you need access to your hosting account, usually one for FTP and one for phpMyAdmin.
Technically more demanding, but you have the whole site in one go and less error prone specially if both Moodle versions are the same (2.0.3).