Best Practices of Migrating a 10-year-old REDCap Instance to a new OS and VM

• Files:

  1. Presentation as a html
  2. Presentation as a pdf
  3. Detailed migration script

• Description

  A live migration might be completed in 12 hours, but it requires months of resource allocation, planning, and practicing.

  We discuss strategies for minimizing risk and downtime as you move an established REDCap instance to new hardware.

• REDCapCon Sept 2023, Seatle WA

• Will Beasley¹, Thomas Wilson¹, Greg Neils², Caxton Muchono¹, Patrick Sandin³, April Dickson³

• Affiliations: ¹University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Biomedical and Behavioral Methodology Core, ²Mass General Brigham, RISC, ³University of Oklahoma IT.