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      Back Up and Restore a Course

      Think of backing up and restoring as making templates you can use in the future. You can save a lot of time by not starting a course from scratch each time.

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      Back Up a Course
      Restore a Course

      A course backup is essentially a copy of a course, saving any or all of its settings and content (depending on the configuration of the backup) at the time you create the backup. In other words, having backups means having saved fallback versions of your course. It is advisable to take regular course backups (especially before making major changes), so that you may easily revert to previous versions if needed.

      Courses can be restored from a backup made by Totara. The backup and restore process is a common way of moving or copying specific courses from one Totara to another.

      Back Up a Course

      Please note: If you already have a backup/template you want to use, skip this section and start at Restore a Course.

      1. Navigate to the course you want to back up. 
        • Under Administration on the left sidebar menu, click Backup.
        • Under Backup settings, click Next at the bottom right corner.
        • Scroll down and click Next at the bottom right corner.
        • Under Filename, change the name. 

        Please note: This filename is for your reference only. You're essentially creating a file that you can always restore a course from. Think of it as a template (e.g.  CourseWithSCORMTemplate). It must have .mbz at the end in order to save the file and work properly. 

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                7. Scroll down and click
        Perform backup. 

        Restore a Course

        1. Navigate to the course you want to restore.

        2. Under Administration on the left sidebar menu, click Restore.

        3. Under User private backup, click the Restore button to the right of the backup file you created.

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        4. 4. Scroll down to the Destination section; select Restore as a new course, then click Next.

        Please note: the other options for Destination are

        • Restore into an existing course:You can search for and select a course to restore into, which would replace that course's existing materials and content with those of the restore file.
        • Restore into this course: You will be taken to a page with the option to Delete the contents of this course and then restore. 

        5. Click Next.

        6. Search for and select the category your course should belong to. 

        7. Click Next. 

        8. Click Next.

        9. Rename the Course full Name and Course short name (these should match).

        Please note: when you restore, the course name changes to whatever your template is named, so remember to rename the course afterwards if necessary.

        10. Click Next.

        11. Review your Restore settings and then click Perform restore.