Moodle LMS is used by more than 410 million users in more than 242 countries around the world. It has been used in all types of online learning requirements from Primary schools, colleges, Universities, Corporate training requirements etc.

Often the Moodle Administrators need to migrate the Moodle site from one server to a new server. It may be arising due to multiple reasons such as Server Migration, Server Upgrade or change of hosting provider etc.

Migrating from a server to a new server involves a lot of careful steps to be taken care by the Moodle administrator to avoid any data loss and avoid any problems. The steps to migrate any Moodle site involves taking a backup of your Moodle database, Moodle code and Moodledata directory. Then you need to move the backed up files to the new server and complete the upgrade process.

Recently, Marina Glancy – Moodle Workplace Architect launched a new Moodle plugin – Vault- Site Migration which allows you to make a full backup of the site, push it to the cloud and then restore on the other Moodle site.

It includes a lot of exciting features such as:

• Vault will export and import database structure, schema modifications, tables content and sequences.
• Vault can restore not only into a different DB version but also into a different DB type (i.e. from mysql to postgres or vice versa);
• Vault plugin does not need to have access to mysqldump or pgdump, database will be exported using Moodle DML.
• Vault will export and import all files, regardless of the file system (local disk, S3, etc), the file system on the restored site can be different from the backup site;
• Vault will export and import additional folders in the dataroot.
• After restore Vault will perform some necessary post-restore actions, for example, purge caches, kill all sessions, optionally uninstall missing plugins etc.
• Vault does not back up or restore Moodle code or add-on plugins code.
• Vault does not back up or restore its own tables.
• Other plugins can also be excluded during backup/restore (with some limitations).
• You may choose to set passphrase during backup which will be used to encrypt uploaded files. Vault API never has access to your passphrase, it is only used to sign the requests to AWS S3.

Check out the Vault – Site Migration Moodle plugin here.

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