Each day at 1:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. Central Time, a backup of the forum's databases are initiated. Because of the size of the forum, the process takes about 20 minutes to complete, and during this time, it looks as if the site hangs--new pages won't come in; posts won't submit, etc. Clicking on links only queues more requests to the server, and if you're not careful and click too much in complete frustration, the firewall will think it's under attack and block your IP address completely for a certain length of time.



The noon backup, I know, is particularly irritating.

We implemented the noon backup to keep things as current as possible in case of emergency, but I was hoping to get you folks's feedback about this policy. What do you think? Should we keep the noon backups, or back up only once per day at 1:00 a.m., knowing that 12 hours more of posts and pics might be lost if we have to do a restore?

Please vote!