On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:57:40 -0500, Tom Moulder <tom_moul...@1scom.net> wrote:

>You laugh ...
>
>I am working with a company that literally did this.  They shipped a
>very large disk array to the central computing center and placed it next
>to the production array; synchronously copied all the data; found a
>quiet point on a Sunday morning and split the link; uncabled the array;
>shipped it across country to the BC site (Business Continuity now, not
>Disaster Recovery); they are in the process of cabling it up; will turn
>it on next weekend and away with go with a recovery drill.
>

This is a common practice used in data center moves also.  

Mark
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