>>>>> "JDD" == Joshua D Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> BOSS: 18 hours!! We can only take that much downtime on Thanks-
>> giving weekend, or 3-day July 4th, Christmas or New Year's
>> weekends.
>>
JDD> Sounds like you just found several weekends a year that you
JDD> can do the upgrade with ;). Yes that was a joke.
it's not a joke around here!
every major long weekend, late saturday night or early saturday
morning, i log in and run major maintenance such as reindexing. so
far i've only had to do the dump/restore once from 7.1 to 7.2, and
that too happened on a long weekend.
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