The new setting will allow to host the temporary backup files
into a specific target directory. Defaults to '$CFG->tempdir/backup'.
Calling make_backup_temp_directory() checks that the required sub-directory
will be properly created under the new target directory.
These are David's changes of Mark's code that replace the
plan/tasks/steps infrastructure with a bit simpler one. The changes will
be described in the next commit that will actually finish the
conversion.
TODO: refactor backup/converter/moodle1/stepslib.php into conversion
handlers.