Migration Days
The majority of UAlbany’s servers were moved from the main data center to the new one in ITB on
August 9, 2014. However, we were unwilling to move all of the Libraries’ servers on that day,
which fell in the middle of the summer session. A compromise was reached between the Libraries
and ITS that allowed many of the Libraries’ less mission-critical servers to be moved on the same
day as the university’s servers. These servers were primarily ones that were used for development
and backup purposes, one exception being the server that supported the Libraries’ electronic
reserves service. This server was dependent on the university-supported Blackboard server,
which was being moved on August 9, so the Libraries’ agreed to move this server that day so there
would not be two downtimes for the electronic reserve system