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Learn how to create a complete backup solution for your Open edX installation. This detailed step-by-step how-to guide covers backing up MySQL and MongoDB, organizing backup data into a single date-stamped tarball zip file, plus how to setup a cron job and how to copy your backups to an AWS S3 storage bucket. Summary The official Open edX documentation takes a laissez faire approach to many aspects of administration and support, including for example, how to properly backup and restore course and user data. This article attempts to fill that void. Implementing an effective backup solution for Open edX requires proficiency in a number of technologies, which is fine if you’re part of a full IT team at a major university, but can this can otherwise be a real obstacle to competently supporting your Open edX platform. Open edX stores course data, including media uploads such as images and mp4 video files in MongoDB. To do this, MongoDB’s co

Follow instructions below: Login to Plesk and make sure that  Allow remote connections from any host option  is enabled in  Tools & Settings > Database Servers > Settings Edit  my.cnf/my.ini  file changing  bind-address  parameter to: bind-address = 0.0.0.0 Also, make that  skip-networking  parameter is not defined. For Linux: /etc/mysql/my.cnf  Debian/Ubuntu /etc/my.cnf  CentOS/CloudLinux/RHEL For Windows: "%plesk_dir%\MySQL\my.ini"  for Plesk databases(port 8306) "%plesk_dir%\Databases\MySQL\my.ini"  for Clients databases(port 3306) After that, restart MySQL server. Login to MySQL server. Note : For the access to client's MySQL server on Windows, use PHPMyAdmin:  Plesk > Tools & Settings > Database Servers - MySQL DB Admin. Grant the access to remote IP address and login to MySQL. For example, if you want to allow access to database called  database  for user  user  with password  password  and remote IP add