Re: [PHP] Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

2004-04-21 Thread Burhan Khalid
Travis Low wrote: Michal Migurski wrote: 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. Referential integrity might be a reason. Good point, though if this is a concern, the OP

RE: [PHP] Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

2004-04-21 Thread Chris W. Parker
Travis Low mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:02 PM said: Michal Migurski wrote: [snip] Good point, though if this is a concern, the OP will probably use the built-in enforcement of referential integrity and transaction support of whatever database they are running.

Re: [PHP] Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

2004-04-21 Thread Michal Migurski
Good point, though if this is a concern, the OP will probably use the built-in enforcement of referential integrity and transaction support of whatever database they are running. If a single database is spread over files A, B, and C, then in the time it took for a naive backup to grab

RE: [PHP] Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

2004-04-20 Thread Chris W. Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:41 PM said: 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

Re: [PHP] Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

2004-04-20 Thread Greg Donald
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

Re: [PHP] Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

2004-04-20 Thread Marek Kilimajer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [PHP] Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

2004-04-20 Thread Michal Migurski
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

Re: [PHP] Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

2004-04-20 Thread Travis Low
Michal Migurski wrote: 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

Re: [PHP] Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

2004-04-20 Thread Michal Migurski
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. Referential integrity might be a reason. Good point, though if this is a concern, the OP will probably use the built-in

Re: [PHP] Making an app unviewable during system maintainance

2004-04-20 Thread Travis Low
Michal Migurski wrote: 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. Referential integrity might be a reason. Good point, though if this is a concern, the OP will probably use the