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Clear Backup Files

Maintained by Shubhendra Doiphode
Course backups can be an expensive task at times. It could take loads of unnecessary space and memory on the server. Administrators can clear backup files on the server to free the server space.
Price option: Free

Supports Moodle 3.2-5.2 See all versions
Latest release: 1 month ago
Installations: 938
Downloads (last 90 days): 212

Frankenstyle name: tool_clearbackupfiles
Administration tools

Description

package: tool_clearbackupfiles

This admin tool clears all backup files from the server. It is useful for freeing up space from dev and test servers once they are refreshed from production.

It also gives a report og how many mbz files were deleting clearing how much space.

Instructions:

the backup files can be deleted from /admin/tool/clearbackupfiles/index.php and you can find logs at /report/log/index.php. The default moodle events is used to create log entry.

The plugin also has a setting to enter number of days and associated scheduled task to do the cleanup automatically.

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