Júlia, from the PX team, has suggested a few improvements to make it easier to
understand the Restore main page:
- Displaying a notification instead of the empty table when there are no files
in an area.
- Improve the copy, removing the help buttons and moving this information to the
main page.
- Replacing "Import a backup file" with "Upload a backup file".
- Adding some space between the different areas.
- Displaying a different text in the different "Manage backup files" buttons.
When the two restore forms for searching courses and categories were
converted to core templates in eb9935c9 they lost the named submit
button, which broke searching.
This patch modifies the way copy data is shared in order to mitigate potential race conditions
and ensure that the serialised controller stored in the DB is always in a valid state.
The restore controller is now considered the "source of truth" for all information about the
copy operation. Backup controllers can no longer contain information about course copies.
As copy creation is not atomic, it is still possible for copy controllers to become orphaned or
exist in an invalid state. To mitigate this the backup cleanup task has been modified to call
a new helper method copy_helper::cleanup_orphaned_copy_controllers.
Summary of changes in this patch:
- Copy data must now be passed through the restore controller's constructor
- base_controller::get_copy has been deprecated in favour of restore_controller::get_copy
- base_controller::set_copy has been deprecated without replacement
- core_backup\copy\copy has been deprecated, use copy_helper.class.php's copy_helper instead
- backup_cleanup_task will now clean up orphaned controllers from copy operations that went awry
Thanks to Peter Burnett for assiting with testing this patch.
- The backup details page uses a table to show a sumary of the backup
content. Used role attribute to denote the tabular format of the
summary.
- The backup details page displays activity name next to each activity
icon. Therefore the icons are only decorative and do not need to have
any title or even alt text.
- Form labels should be associated with form controls. A div element is
not a form control.
- The from attribute of the form labels should be equal to the id
attribute of an element. Therefore, we first create a label and an
input elements and associate them to each other, and then pass them to
backup_detail_pair() when a label is needed.
This patch adds better core support for copying courses.
There is now a simplified and dedicated UI for copying
courses. This can be accessed from the course context
menu or course management screens.
All backups are done asynchronously and there can be multiple
copies of a course in flight at once.
Allow both UI and automated backups to be created without
including files. Instead include only file references.
This is essentially implementing "SAMESITE" to backup files
instead of only for import and export functionality.
A new backup setting to include files (defaults to yes)
has been included.
The restore process will also look for and attempt to
restore files from the trashdir as part of restoring
backups. Additionally to support this process the
ammount of time files are kept in trashdir before they
are cleaned up via cron is also adjustable via admin
setting.
This patch adds asynchronous backup and restore functionality
to Moodle. This is an optional feature and is not enabled by
default. It can be enabled by site administrators.
Asynchronous backup and restores are actioned by the Moodle
adhoc task API. The progress of backup and restores is
displayedin the Moodle UI. Users can also be sent a message
when a backup or restore operation completes via the
Moodle messaging API.
Sanitise the CSS for backup and restore. Main fixes are to sanitise the form-inline styles and set a fixed
width for the search forms within the restore form.
- Users without permission to download or restore won't see the
respective links.
- The 'Manage backup files' button for the 'automated' backup filearea
now requires the same permissions as downloading does for this filearea,
those being 'restore:userinfo' and 'backup:downloadfile'.
Replace a hardcoded div.notifyproblem with a API call that,
in Standard theme, outputs the same HTML.
Also removes the .notifyproblem class from the heading,
as that might cause problems for themers who expect it to be
used consistently with the API.
When doing a backup or restore operation with the normal user interface,
if there is anything in the backup/restore log, it will now be displayed
at the end of the process below the Continue button.
If you have developer debugging enabled, it sets the display level to
LOG_DEBUG and there will always be content in the log. Otherwise, it
uses LOG_INFO which generally means the log is empty, and nothing
displays (no visible change for users).
* added new config option to determine length of courses returned by import
* added text indicator if there are more than X number of courses, similar to how the restore course list currently works
Sara Arjona