[MrEyes]

So, in other words, we shouldn't add anything in to the vB Scheduled Tasks, but use our web host's chron job?

Yes this is entirely independent from vBulletin scheduled tasks you don't need to go anywhere near it.

Originally Posted by Elenna

I haven't tried this yet, but I wanted to confirm a few things:

To use this, we should likely be making our own backup via a *nix Chron job, and add in the call(s) to this script in that same PHP file?

If you are using a cron you might have an sh script that looks something like this:

mysqldump --opt -Q -u dbusername -p databasename > /path/to/backupname.sql

You would edit that script to:

wget "http://yoursite/forum/opentoggle.php?do=close"
mysqldump --opt -Q -u dbusername -p databasename > /path/to/backupname.sql
wget "http://yoursite/forum/opentoggle.php?do=open"

So when the script is run it first closes the site, then calls mysqldump then opens the site.