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Live replicas (perhaps initialized with a cold backup, initially, if the dataset's really huge), carving off parts of it for separate migration if that's at all feasible, and some expensive folks doing a lot of butt-clenching-worthy activity for an hour or two (unless it goes very poorly...) for the final cut-over, some evening.


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