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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition - Second Edition

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

As social networks become more popular, their role in the classroom has come under scrutiny. Drupal offers a wide variety of useful tools for educators. Within a single Drupal site, you can set up social bookmarking, podcasting, video hosting, formal and informal groups, rich user profiles, and other features commonly associated with social web communities. "Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition" teaches you how to create your own social networking site to advance teaching and learning goals in the classroom, while giving you complete control over features and access. Communicate with students, share learning resources, and track assignments through simple tasks with this hands-on guide.In this book you will learn to install and configure the default Drupal distribution and then extend it to include blogs, bookmarks, a media sharing platform, and discussion forums. The book also covers how to organize your site to easily track student work on the site, and how to control who has access to that information. Additionally, it teaches you how to make the site easy to use, how to maintain the site, and how to ask for and receive help in the Drupal community.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Automating backups using backup and migrate


The Backup and Migrate module simplifies the process of backing up your site by automating the key steps of site maintenance. To get started, download the 7.x-2 Version of the module from http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate, and install it as described in Chapter 3, Getting Started. Also download and install the latest version of the Backup and Migrate Files module, found at http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate_files.

Once you have the modules installed, click on Configuration | Backup and Migrate, or navigate to admin/config/system/backup_migrate.

As you work with your site over time, you will fine-tune the settings for the Backup and Migrate module. As we cover how to configure this module, we will discuss how to tune the settings. The Backup and Migrate module performs two related maintenance tasks:

  • Backing up the database

  • Backing up the files directory

Once the database and files have been backed up, they are compressed and stored on...