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Yeah, that shit isn't right. They're probably bringing the DB down in order to capture it in a consistent state, which is an important thing, but there are many options for hot backups of databases. Any qualified (read as: halfway decent) technician should be able to sort something out for you. Word of warning though, many of the packages that assist in hot backups of DBs you'll have to pay for. If you want to do it on the cheap, you could try all sorts of tricks, replicate MySQL servers and only bring the secondary down to backup, that sort of thing.
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