Moodle

META: Backup & restore capabilities improvements

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.9.4
  • Fix Version/s: STABLE backlog
  • Component/s: Backup
  • Labels:
    None
  • Difficulty:
    Moderate
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

Right now backup and restore is handled by very simple capabilities. That need to be changed to offer a higher degree of detail, controlling things like logs, users, roll dates... both in backup and restore (separate caps?).

For now these have been talked:

  • ability to control backup of users.
  • ability to control backup of logs.
  • ability to control roll dates in restore (MDL-12922)

Issue Links

This issue has a non-specific relationship to:
MDL-13847 backup/restore issues meta Minor Open
MDL-16658 Teachers are able to create user accounts during restore even they don't have "moodle/user:create" Blocker Closed
MDL-12922 Course restores for non-admin users appear ~7 years early Major Closed
This issue has been marked as being related by:
MDL-17918 Privacy improvements project for 1.9.6 Critical Closed

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Dan Marsden added a comment -

it would be nice if this could be extended slightly to control certain parts of user information in the backups

eg to allow users to be backed up, but to remove "email" fields from backups - probably also the "password" field?

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Dan Marsden added a comment - it would be nice if this could be extended slightly to control certain parts of user information in the backups eg to allow users to be backed up, but to remove "email" fields from backups - probably also the "password" field?
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Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) added a comment -

Hi Dan,

well... main problem with those fields is that they are required fields... so IMO it isn't possible to keep them out (unless for some sort of anonymous backup ). IMO, by default, teachers shouldn't be able to backup/restore users by default. Or/and we can seed the password or... not really sure. I agree we must address that in some way, 100%. But backupping without password or email... sounds "incomplete" to be functional.

Ciao

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Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) added a comment - Hi Dan, well... main problem with those fields is that they are required fields... so IMO it isn't possible to keep them out (unless for some sort of anonymous backup ). IMO, by default, teachers shouldn't be able to backup/restore users by default. Or/and we can seed the password or... not really sure. I agree we must address that in some way, 100%. But backupping without password or email... sounds "incomplete" to be functional. Ciao
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Dan Marsden added a comment -

fair enough - I wrote a custom hack to remove password/e-mail and a couple of other fields for OU's incremental backups - they want to ship out course backups to people to install locally and want to keep forum posts etc, but don't want the local installs to contain "private" information..... hence the removal of password and e-mail. - might need to keep it as a hack instead of getting something in core to handle this.

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Dan Marsden added a comment - fair enough - I wrote a custom hack to remove password/e-mail and a couple of other fields for OU's incremental backups - they want to ship out course backups to people to install locally and want to keep forum posts etc, but don't want the local installs to contain "private" information..... hence the removal of password and e-mail. - might need to keep it as a hack instead of getting something in core to handle this.
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Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) added a comment -

This will completed in 1.9.8, with caps to control creation of users and so on... moving...

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Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) added a comment - This will completed in 1.9.8, with caps to control creation of users and so on... moving...

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