OT: Forum Question

[Kamog]

Oh, so I'm not the only one who's had trouble with the forum late at night!

[Jack Simth]

Pity you can't simply limit the backup's recource usage to 75% or something so that the forums can still handle traffic during a backup.

[Will]

Probably a bit difficult to do that, when usually resource management only limits memory and/or processor usage. The thing that would be slowing down the forums that much would be disk access. We post a lot

Maybe the backups can be changed, so that, say, once a month, the entire forums are dumped to backup. Then, to keep up to date, the nightly backups only backup posts between specific times. So, you would have the total backup for January, then on February 1, all the posts made from midnight to midnight EST would be backed up, repeat for each day of the month. Then, in the event that the backups are needed, just use the lastest monthly backup, then apply each daily backup to restore the forums fully. It increases by a bit the time needed to restore the forums, but decreases the time needed to backup dramatically.

[rdouglass]

Now there's one area Windows server shines (at least 2K3). I can do "Shadow Volume" backups any time of day and the server never slows down a bit; don't even have to take anything off line.

Not saying at all that Windows is best, just a little comparison there.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Was wondering about that.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Ah... so that was it. A few days back I was trying to browse the forums in the morning (I'm in the same time zone as Alneyan) and it worked well... until some time when I tried to reload all tabs to check for replies and it just kept loading. After a minute or so, pages started giving messages like "the operation timed out when conctacting (...)".

So I'm not the only one with the problem.