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How to Plan a Cloud Migration Without Disrupting Daily Operations

AddisNova Cloud Team July 11, 2026

The riskiest way to migrate to the cloud is a single big-bang cutover on a Friday night. A phased approach — migrating non-critical systems first, validating each stage, and keeping a tested rollback plan at every step — takes longer on paper but almost always finishes with less actual downtime.

Before migrating anything, test your backups. Not 'confirm a backup job ran' — actually restore from one. It's the single most common gap we find in infrastructure audits, and the one most likely to turn a routine migration into an incident.

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