Hi @aethon
Thanks for the great question! Normally we don’t provide support for Premium features here in the www.ads-software.com forums (we can support the premium product on our dedicated support forums).
However, backups before auto-updates is also a feature in the Free plugin hosted here, so I’ll go ahead and answer here in case anyone else has a similar question.
Since auto-updates are run on a WordPress core wp-cron schedule of “Twice Daily,” these are different than the normal scheduled backups that you can specify the time-of-day for.
However, I think this is a useful feature, so I’ve gone ahead and created a feature request for our developers based on your feedback.
In the meantime, you could accomplish this with a third-party plugin like WP Crontrol or Advanced Cron Manager.
You can use these plugins to alter the events wp_update_plugins and wp_update_themes to change their schedule from “Twice Daily” to a set time-of-day. You’ll want to couple that with an automated uptime monitor like Pingdom, Newrelic or something similar (many CDN’s come with an uptime monitor as well). This will ensure that wp-cron is triggered to run at the correct time during your slow time of day.
