Restore course backup via terminal for moodle

Question

I need to restore about 70 course backups to a course area (id 20) in moodle. Is this possible via a terminal (ubuntu) via loop? THX

Answer 1

We have create a bash-script for more backups

> read -p "Path to backup: " -r DIRECTORY 
> read -p "Category-ID:" -r CATEGORYID
> 
> BACKUPS=$(ls $DIRECTORY)
> array=( $BACKUPS  ) for i in "${array[@]}" do
>         cd httpdocs/
>         echo ""
>         echo ""
>         echo "restored $i"
>         echo ""
>         sudo -u www-data php admin/cli/restore_backup.php --file=$DIRECTORY${i} --categoryid=$CATEGORYID
done

View the moodle documentation here

https://docs.moodle.org/402/en/Course_backup

Answer 2

Do you mean a category? You can restore to a category via the command line

php admin/cli/restore_backup.php --file=/backupfolder/backupfile.mbz --categoryid=20

And just for reference, backup via command line

php admin/cli/backup.php --courseid=99

Or

php admin/cli/backup.php --courseshortname=mycourse

Restore via command line