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OK, So I've now got the backup in place.
Back will occur between 2am and 3:30am.
As backup involves dumping the databases, and then synchronising all servers before finally uploading up to 8GB of data to 2 different locations... well, I'm not going to promise a highly responsive forum at those kinds of hours in the morning.
If you happen to be on the West coast of the USA whilst accessing the forum, bear in mind that your late evening is when we do the backup and so it will be slow around that time. Interestingly we have more Aussies than West coast Americans, so this works for me and is less risky than trying to time it with Australia and having the start of the European day ramp up.
Backups are daily for everything, and then we additionally keep snapshots of the database (though if we have to roll to backup older than a day I cannot guarantee we have all attachments as only the daily snapshot of those is kept (storage costs would ruin me).
The backup data is replicated to 2 different data centres in Switzerland.