To that end, I checked my drive space and it looks about the same as last time I checked. I opened the folder where the automated course backups are kept and clicked the name column, this is a windows server, to organize the listing by course names, which is the best way for me to quickly see that the automated course backup page is in fact keeping 2 copies of each course, only 2 copies of each course.
I can see two copies of each course, I HAD TOO use the course number, not the name, for this process to work (I am still on moodle 2.2 for this instance). You can also see the dates of the last 2 copies. The variation in the date also means that some courses are being skipped since their content has not changed, which is also good and smart. You can also see that some of the courses are smallish, while others are biggish, like course 271 is almost 700 MB, while course 202 is only 4.7 MB.
And since we are peeking at the course backups, here is a peek at the full DB backups that happen, i think, every night, with a script that monitors this drive space and removes backup files older than 60 days, this too so I don't forget and cause MySQL to seize up because it runs out of drive space.
As you can see, there are two DBs on this server that are being backuped up using mysql dump, looks like 3 or 4 times a week. One DB is small, only a few active moodle courses, the other large.
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