> Hi there I was wondering how people usually turn the app off during system > maintainance. During the hours of 6-7 the database goes down for backing > up, the users therefore keeping trying to get into the system, i get an > error that the database is down when i know it should be down near that > time. Without causing too many if statements what is the best way to do > this ?
Get another server, setup replication, and do backups off the slave, virtually no downtime then. Otherwise make a site-down page and cron it's swap out schedule with your backups schedule. -- Greg Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
