The Blackboard system is backed up every night at 2am, however, the back up taken is a whole of system one and cannot be used to restore individual courses. It is therefore recommended that you create a back up file of your blackboard course site regularly. A copy should be taken at the end of each academic year to preserve the teaching materials used in that year for QAA purposes.
The Blackboard back up file (called an archive) is created by the server at your request and stored on the course site (full instructions on how to create your own archive file). You can take a copy of the file to download to your own computer. The archive file cannot be opened and viewed but can be restored to Blackboard if needed.
To collect your archive file:
go to the CONTROL PANEL and choose ‘archive course’ from the course settings menu
control panel
Right click on the long filename in blue to download the file to your local computer.
right click on long filename
Once the file is downloaded you can delete the archive from blackboard by clicking ‘remove’.
delete the archive file from Blackboard
