Moodle on Azure backup and restore procedures

Job ID: 37571778

Budget: €12 – €18 EUR

Objective

We are looking for a Moodle and Azure administrator to help us develop procedures for backing up, restoring, and upgrading a Moodle production platform deployed through Bitnami on Azure, and document the process for future updates.

Detailed requirements

Moodle 3.8 LMS production platform is installed on two linux (Debian 9.3) servers deployed as virtual machines on a resource group on Azure.

Backup

Establish the best backup policy within Moodle, linux servers and Azure resources. Set up automatic full and incremental backups.

Restore

Establish a procedure and agenda of preventive backup restoration and a procedure for restoring after a critical failure.

Upgrade

Establish a procedure for updating the Moodle LMS, linux servers and other applications on the servers (MariaDB database, PHP, apache web server…).



We already have Azure Site Recovery set up but is not working properly. We have also a second Moodle platform for testing purposes.
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