In this chapter, you learned about the various Moodle backup alternatives. You learned how to create course-level, site-level, and system-level backups as well as data recovery from each type. It is important that your Moodle backup strategy fits in with your organization's overall disaster recovery plan. We also saw some applications that make use of the backup and restore facilities.

Moodle offers a good range of backup and restore options. However, there are sometimes problems with some of the built-in backup and recovery operations. The common causes for problems are timeouts, memory overload, archives that cannot be read, and third-party add-ons. Be aware that these issues exist, and run test recoveries to be on the safer side.