Moodle Tips – Restoring the backup into another course

When you click the Continue button the Restore page appears. Scroll down to the User private backup area and select the backup that you just created.

Next, you will see the settings for this backup that you are choosing to restore:

Click on Continue to proceed to the Destination page. Carefully review the options on this page. Since you began this process by first backing up sections from a course and immediately have continued with performing a restore, you will want to select the option of Restore into an existing course. Select the course that you want to restore the backup file into. Once you have selected the course, click on Continue.

You will see a page displaying:

After you click on Next, the following Schema page displays. This page shows Schema of the course backup that you have selected (not the course that the backup will be restored into).

 

Click on Next and the backup settings again display with the button in the lower right-hand corner to Perform restore:

 

When you click Continue, you will be taken to the course that you restored the backup into:

 

 

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