Website closes to backup every day - how will this affect SEO?

I have just finished building a website. However there may be a potential problem with it. It closes down everyday early in the morning for 3 hours to backup. During this time the website changes and says website closed come back later. However spiders will index this instead of the main content as the site changes. Could anyone advise me how this will affect SEO and rankings of the site as i have never come across this problem before?

Thanks

 

Yeah, this is really, really bad my friend. There has to be a better way than this. Perhaps you can mirror the site for those three hours.

 

Yeah i was thinking of something along those line. Anyone else got some alternatives?

 

This does not sound like a good idea.

 

Angilina, no offence but if you're going to reply at least make it useful or spark some kind of debate. What a useless comment.

 

Why does your site need to close to backup ? There is no need for that - you can do hot backups and leave the site open

 

Hi Crazygirl. I'm not a developer so i don't know why this needs to happen. The site was built by a 3rd party company. Thanks for the hot backups idea, i'll do some more research on this. Can you point me in the direction of any good articles you may be aware of?

Thanks

 

same here

change the backup system to such that the backup runs plus the site is on too

IF the site is dynamic (as it seems to be due to backup issue) how about saving a static page of the site's state at the time of start of backup as the landing page and once the backup is done then switch back to the dynamic landing page..

I hope I made it clear...

small script will be enough for this.....

 

It will hurt your site ranking badly.

 

even if the site down for 5 min it has great impact on indexing.For Many pages serach engines think that page not found,theoreticaly people disagree but i have checked it practically

Regards

Alex

 

@ nofullstop, this is a big website. Would it be easy to create a script to make many static pages? This could also create duplicate content issues if the static page gets indexed as well as the dynamic one. Thanks for the idea tho.

 

personally I never heard of a website that has to shut down every day 3 hours to backup, if I was you I would contact who made the website and ask them why they need to do that...

 

Markusb - The site doesn't shut down every 3 hours, it shuts for this time every day early in the morning.

 

Honestly, I can not think of any reason why a site would need to get shut down, while it is being backed up...

 

i think u can tell robots not to come at that time or tell them to come once a day

 

How big is your database?

3 hours is too long, look in to Rsync which does incremental backups (only the data changed from last backup) instead of backing up the whole database daily.

Also when using mysqlhotcopy there is no need to close the board down, it does a flush/lock on your database tables prior to backing them up and is so effective you can have have thousands of users online at the time.

The result is a few minutes of running backup process and no downtime. If you are running 3 hours of backups daily, the bandwidth must be killing you.