Hi @aethon
Thanks for the great question! Normally we don’t provide support for Premium features here in the www.remarpro.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.
