Re: Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

> Hi there I was wondering how people usually turn the app off during system > maintainance. During the hours of 6-7 the database goes down for backing > up, the users therefore keeping trying to get into the system, i get an > error that the database is down when i know it should be down near that > time. Without causing too many if statements what is the best way to do > this ? Get another server, setup replication, and do backups off the slave, virtually no downtime then. Otherwise make a site-down page and cron it's swap out schedule with your backups schedule. -- Greg Donald destiney@destiney.com