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 ? Don't take the database down for backups. I can think of no logical reason why you'd want to kill the DB to back it up, since it's just a big "read" operation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html