Please do ^.^

Hm.. I'm not extremely familiar with cron jobs, but from what I understand..

You're able to set up a cron job to do a database backup? And with this mod, turn vB off at the same time as the backup? Does it automatically detect when the backup is finished and come back online, or would you have to set it to go offline for an hour?

Thanks,

Looking at the code it does not automatically detect when the backup is finished, you would have to set the open cron to run X amount of time after the backup.

Yes, you should make the cronjob turn off the board just before your backup is set to take place and then the 2nd cronjob to be when you believe the backup will be finished by.

Excellent hack will install when I finally finish our upgrade to 3.5. Will be absolutely perfect AS IS for us.

Added some FAQ's.

can be used for 3.0.7?

I am the guy who paid to have this script made and then allowed it to be release to the community for free. :)

Now I am having a problem.

On the servers where I have this running va cron in the AdminCP it works great.

I have one windows server where I want to run the scripts with a batch file. I am using the command line:

c:\php\php.exe -f c:\domains\mydomainnameremoved\wwwroot\includes\cr on\forumoff.php

I do not get any errors when running it via the command line. But the forum does not shut down (or open back up).

Any ideas?

Any ideas on a fix for the above question?

Please get in direct contact so i can replicate this and fix 4 you