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Originally Posted by 2XOverhead
This is a good suggestion.  |
Yes. Yes it is. But I am merely stating the obvious and a common time for scheduled server backups and maintenance. I've had internet servers for business purposes. We scheduled the backups and regular maintenance by viewing the server logs and then running them during the lowest server activity.
In the case of Tundra Solutions, 3:00AM may or may not be the optimum, but it'd be better than 10:00. I'd check the server logs and see when the West Coast night crowd drops off significantly, and when the East Coast morning crowd starts coming on. Then I'd schedule the backups and maintenance in between those times.
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Now if you're merely renting space on the server, tell the hosting company they are making your site unusable during prime time - and they need to reschedule the backups and maintenance to a much later time. If that fails, go shopping for a hosting company that has a clue. None I know of would schedule routine backups and maintenance at such an hour as 10:00 PM.