From: "Geo." 

"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:45cfac7d{at}w3.nls.net...

> Also depends on being able to move services selectively & basically
> using routing.
>
> E.g. you have server it has a
>
> DB & An appserver on it serving lots of users so you need to be able to
> smoothly & easily moving the appserver over to a new machine & then
> point it back at the old db & then reroute users to the new appserver
> (which is still using the old db).
>
> Then transfer the db & rebuild the db on the second machine
>
> Then switch the app server to point to the new address for it's data
> &........now you're good to go 

Why do all that, if you can do the transfer & rebuild part then just
transfer and rebuild to a second machine then backup that machine and leave
the users alone.

Geo.

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