Re: [Userops] Why is it hard to move from one machine to another? An analysis.

[Elena ``of Valhalla'']

On 2015-04-09 at 00:28:00 +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
> I think the old guaranteed way of making this work is to allow
> applications to handle the migration themselves, otherwise you could run
> in to incompatibilities in the software versions.

I'm not sure that this would work in the case when the migration is not
between an old live server and a newer one, because of planned updates,
but between the backups of an old dead server and a new one, because 
of emergency replacement. I suspect that home servers may tend to fall 
in this case more often than "traditional" servers with an
administrator.

Having full redundancy can be a solution, but it adds complexity (and
price, in most cases)

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Elena ``of Valhalla''