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Originally Posted by bzcomputers

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1) Do I have to turn off my site to run this backup? No.

2) While running backup, does it affect the site performance (slow)? Depending on how large your database is will depend on how much time/server resources your backup will take. It's a cron job so just schedule it to run at the slowest time of the day for your site. A backup is a lot more important than worrying about slowing your site for few seconds or minutes at an off-peak time.

How would one setup the site to turn off during this backup process? Have a rather large db here (1gb zipped). Would rather have the site off, let the backup run, then turn the site back on.