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Chris · 07-16-2006, 11:49 AM

I get a handful of PMs about this every week, figured I'd throw out a heads up.

I run a forum backup every night at midnight that dumps the entire database (around 900MB) as well as makes tarball of the entire filesystem (about 3GB), followed up by a wget call from an external server to automatically download the backups to a server I have at work. It's pretty processor-intensive, and it kicks off at midnight EST every night, lasting about 10 minutes or so. If you're on the forums around that time and you get a couple of page timeouts, that's why.

07-16-2006, 11:49 AM	#1
Chris metalguitarist.org Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Boston, Mass Posts: 16,619 Real Name: Mr. F. Johnson Main Seven: Sherman Custom Main ERG: Douglas 6ST Bass Rig: 2101 -> S160 -> Mesa Thanked: 538	FYI for late-night surfers I get a handful of PMs about this every week, figured I'd throw out a heads up. I run a forum backup every night at midnight that dumps the entire database (around 900MB) as well as makes tarball of the entire filesystem (about 3GB), followed up by a wget call from an external server to automatically download the backups to a server I have at work. It's pretty processor-intensive, and it kicks off at midnight EST every night, lasting about 10 minutes or so. If you're on the forums around that time and you get a couple of page timeouts, that's why. Metalguitarist.org