Comment by iliasku

I found this article useful, mostly for people who don't have similar experience dealing with large databases. It gives so many reasons on why following this path is such a bad idea. Please people, stop writing custom scripts and then run them untested on the production db. If the company doesn't pay to give you enough disk space to take a proper backup to test just quit or buy it yourself. It will save you 11 months and many hours of sleep.