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For us, we've only ever needed to use a database backup twice in our history, but you can never be too safe. Even losing a week's worth of content would be disappointing. I used to do monthly backups, but I now do them pretty much twice a week. File backups are usually once every six months (they don't change very much at all). 

How often is pretty much acceptable to do a database backup? Have you ever had to use one before? Curious as to what other site owners and administrators use as their general schedule for these.

My life has gotten increasingly stressful these past couple of years. I completed a two year program of College at my nearby Community College several years back. Took a couple years off, saved up as much money as possible, and went back. After changing my major, along with the hurricane (and now the coronavirus), my studies have dragged on longer than I expected. Savings ran dry paying for semester after semester, and now I'm working two jobs (and a third super-part time) and in school full time to try to get it finished off. 

Communities like this one (and a number of other forums) are a stress-reliever of sorts for me. Outside of that, I try to stay in good shape physically, do my best to eat well, have a consistent schedule throughout the day, and try various supplements (L-theanine, CBD oil, and so forth) to help reduce the stress. In any case, you get used to it after a while. I know that there are people here who have much more stress in their lives than I do here. You learn and roll with it after a while. 

And of course, as you get older, it only gets worse!

How do you manage stress in your life?

Hy guys, hope you're all still healthy, I have a question. Which video chat program should my Kidds or I use on the PC? Skype? or https://zoom.us/ or do you have a better suggestion

Lg Tc

Hi guys!

I'm Kyng, otherwise known as CJ. I'm 29 years old, I'm from the United Kingdom, and I work as a software developer. My hobbies include railways, sports (especially Formula One), gaming (especially strategy games), and - of course - forumming!

This looked like a nice place, so I thought I'd check it out .

We have a new feature here on the forums for handling notifications, thread subscriptions, etc (thanks to MyAlerts). The alerts will be on the toolbar on the top-right of any page. They can handle: 

• When your post is quoted
  
• New replies on a thread you're subscribed to
  
• Someone replies on a thread you created
  
• Someone gives you a +rep
  
• Someone rates your thread
  
• Buddy requests and PMs
  

Just read this today. A firmware bug in certain SSD models from HPE will cause them to irrecoverably crash after exactly 40,000 hours (4.5 years) of operation. The data can not be recovered after this happens. 

Crazy enough, this isn’t even the first time this has happened with them. I would understand it if it were 65K or some other power of 2, but it’s not. 

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article...this-year/

Hi MS!

Been playing around with a new phpBB forum (I also own a few forums running myBB, so please don't hate me!)

It's meant to be an old-school gaming looking forum, that many of us participated in a long time ago. Still some things to sort out here and there but it's coming together now.

Please take a look at https://gvforums.net/forums/ and let me know what you think - any suggestions would be great!

Thank you

Hello all,

I'm an avid gamer who likes to build websites in my spare time.

Looking forward to being a part of this artistic community

I saw this today. It's honestly a very neat idea. It basically traps spambots into an infinite loop of reloading the page to fill their database with bogus email addresses. Assuming it works (and xrumer isn't configured to not point to this website anymore), it's a genius idea. 

As such, I've put a link to it here. Anyone heard of this (or this idea) before? 

http://www.spamhelp.org/harvesterkiller/