[Outages-discussion] [outages] [META] Some outages are planned

[Damian Menscher]

I guess this was before change management procedures had a section to
describe the rollback plan, in case something goes wrong with the new
system.

Or was their rollback plan: "splice thousands of cables"?

Damian

On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 10:28 AM Jay R. Ashworth via Outages <
outages at outages.org> wrote:

> We're prone, in the networking and IT world, to use the term "cutover" to
> describe what happens when we replace an old system with a new one.  But
> even
> if you know where the term comes from... I'll bet you've never actually
> *seen*
> one:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk
>
> [ reply comments to -discuss ]
>
> Cheers,
> -- jr '<admin/>' a
>
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