Unless your database is tens of gigabytes, it won’t take hours. And you’ll put the forum in read only mode before you backup and restore, so you won’t lose any posts. It’s not that hard to do with virtually no down time, just read only time.
Unless your database is tens of gigabytes, it won’t take hours. And you’ll put the forum in read only mode before you backup and restore, so you won’t lose any posts. It’s not that hard to do with virtually no down time, just read only time.