Planning to Shut Down the Forums This Weekend

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Patrick

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I am hoping this will only be for a maximum of 1 hour.

Here is the issue: We need the forums to get from an old cluster to a new cluster and it is going to have to be a cold migration.

My plan is either Friday night or Saturday night when activity is lower.

The good news is that it will have a lot more resources in the new cluster.
 

amalurk

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You cannot make it read only on old/disable login, transfer to new cluster, verify it is working on new then point DNS to new cluster?
 

USER189364

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You cannot make it read only on old/disable login, transfer to new cluster, verify it is working on new then point DNS to new cluster?
This would actually be an interesting write-up of the process, planning, and execution. The forum is big enough to make such a process and approach plan necessary, but small enough that it is not multi week/months in planning.
 

MountainBofh

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You cannot make it read only on old/disable login, transfer to new cluster, verify it is working on new then point DNS to new cluster?
I'm not a forum or database expert, but maybe it's just easier to just shut the thing down and copy it vs trying to keep it up in read only mode ?
 
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