Thank you Sim, Bill, Andy, Scott and Tomas for all your suggestions.
Indeed I have now learnt formulate such a document.
The database we plan to move is used for research and it resides along
side several other applications on the same hardware. The idea is to
move the entire database cluster to a
On 29.1.2012 07:30, Allan Kamau wrote:
> Hi,
> This is definitely off topic, I apologize.
> We are planning to move our PostgreSQL installation from a shared
> server to a dedicated server. I have been given the responsibility of
> writing a migration policy document for this operation. This would
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Allan Kamau wrote:
> Hi,
> This is definitely off topic, I apologize.
> We are planning to move our PostgreSQL installation from a shared
> server to a dedicated server. I have been given the responsibility of
> writing a migration policy document for this operati
On 01/29/2012 12:30 AM, Allan Kamau wrote:
Hi,
This is definitely off topic, I apologize.
We are planning to move our PostgreSQL installation from a shared
server to a dedicated server. I have been given the responsibility of
writing a migration policy document for this operation. This would be
m
In addition to all this, you will need to outline an actual plan for
the migration itself:
1) Steps to migrate
2) Testing strategy to ensure the migration actually worked
3) Estimated time
3a) How much of that time is actual downtime
4) Fallback plan in case the migration fails
For such document
You are moving to a dedicated server for a reason, most probably
performance.
The intro section of the document should discuss the reasons you are
moving and what you hope to accomplish.
Hardware - The discuss the new platform that you are moving to, in terms
of how it will perform better. Importa
