The Problem
The performance and stability of the storage layer is extremely critical for large databases, especially when the data size has grown to terabytes. When there is a shared storage among multiple servers, the storage layer can be upgraded without touching the servers. In such a situation one of the challenging tasks is moving the databases to the new storage. Due to the enormous size of the database, it usually takes several hours to copy the database files, which requires several hours of downtime. In this article I will be discussing how to minimize the downtime for larger databases during a storage migration.
How this is done for a small database
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