You could always email the board admin ([email protected]) and see if s/he would allow you/assist you in mirroring the board. It never hurts to have a totally separate backup site...

I imagine you could replicate the DB from one MYSQL server to another but I'm just guessing as I don't know MYSQL's capabilities that well. If that's not possible there's GOT to be a way to script a hot backup of the DB, transport it, and load it onto a different server...

-- Bleys

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