Turn off forums daily with cron

[jparks46]

In order to take backups, I want to disable the forums and dump the database on a daily basis, but I don't want to manually disable/enable them.

I've tried to just edit the setting in mysql, but that doesn't change anything. I think I need to edit something in the datastore, but I'm not sure.

Ideas?

[Lynne]

To turn back on:
UPDATE datastore SET data = REPLACE(data, '"bbactive";i:0;', '"bbactive";i:1;') WHERE title = 'options'; Do the other way around to turn off.

[jparks46]

Thanks a ton Lynne!

[ChopSuey]

Why not use an auto backup mod? Hehe.