[j1mmy]

Originally Posted by TNCclubman

But what if your board database is 2GB?

Backing up every few hours is going to put your bandwidth usage through the roof and also put a strain on your server thus slowing it down. Thats why most backups are done at night.

Last time I tried to do a backup myself, my server hit 15.0 (usually its under 1.0)

That's only if is board is that big, it's not required to backup several times a day, but it helps.

I just suggest you should handle your own backups. Hosts also give a time frame of 48hrs+, it very rigid.

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Originally Posted by Redlinemotorsports

I use this to make my database backups. A couple times a day. I usually just save my files to my hard drive

Do you download from that directory or are they sent to you automatically?