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- With last year’s metrics, forecast this year’s consumption and use those numbers to load test.
- Check your backup and failover strategy, and do disaster-recovery testing.
- Perform a database configuration check, and make sure all settings are accurate and per your hardware.
- Test your high-availability solution, and carry out connection pooling for your anticipated traffic.
- Clean up and archive your old data.
- Make sure all recent, ongoing and pending issues are resolved.
- Establish a code / configuration freeze date to take unknown risks out of play.
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