Function: anonymizeBackup()

function anonymizeBackup(file, destFile): Promise<{
  changed: string;
  cleared: BackupIdentifier[];
  file: {
     name: string;
     path: string;
     size: number;
  };
}>;

Defined in: areas/backup/anonymous.ts:191

Writes to destFile a copy of a backup file (.mbz) that names no one and no site: no browser, no session. Every user id in its XML is 0 (files' owners, questions' creators, modifiers and owners…), every author's or issuer's name empty; the original site's address and identifier hash, the course's id and names, the file's name, the site's host in question stamps, the site's address in texts and the backup's log are replaced by neutral values (ANONYMOUS). The content (texts, settings, files) stays as it was; the numeric ids of the backup's pieces too, which only matter inside it. Moodle restores the copy as a backup from another site, wherever it's restored: the questions and files are the restoring person's, and links to activities left out of the backup point to the neutral site. Returns what was cleared. destFile may be file itself. A backup with users' data is refused: Moodle's own anonymization makes those (its anonymize setting).

Parameters

Parameter	Type
file	string
destFile	string

Returns

Promise<{ changed: string; cleared: BackupIdentifier[]; file: { name: string; path: string; size: number; }; }>