Last Updated: 31-December-2021 (editorial, added Resources)

Why write this up?

Surely this is documented elsewhere. Sure, it is, but as I worked through this on my own, I discovered that the official MIAB guide is missing a key point on achieving a successful restore/move of an MIAB instance.

MIAB’s “Moving to a New Box/Testing Backups” is where you start, so that’s where I started this journey. For completeness, I’ll repeat the steps given in the MIAB maintenance guide, but make some notes along the way.

The Big Tech Oligarchy has built a rich set of products and services that are available at “no cost”, but in fact the users of these services are in fact the currency exchanged. Google, for example, scans every email message passing through its servers in order to target advertising and train its AI, among other things.

It’s much deeper than just trying to optimize targeting for advertising, it is literally used to manipulate behavior. The 2020 Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, is truly sobering.