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...
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