Probably testing restoration is a good idea...
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > Make sure your backups are recent, up to date and current. :) > > Know your shutdown and restart plans/procedures and go over them with your > team. > > I went through this exercise a few months ago (with help and input from > the good folks here) and it was luckily a non-event. > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:30 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That is scary, we are moving to our new office tonight/tomorrow and >> although its only 1 mile away - now I'm getting nervous... :( >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Jean-Paul Natola >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:16:28 -0500 >> >> Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. >> >> When we moved into our new data center in 2010 we had several drives in a >> few older servers and an older SAN that did not spin back up after being >> shut down to be moved. The equipment was only down for a couple of hours >> while it was moved between buildings. Those drives had been spinning >> continuously for several years before the move. Luckily the failed drives >> were in separate RAID arrays so we didn’t lose any data. >> >> >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Maglinger, Paul >> *Sent:* Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:03 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. >> >> >> >> The first concern that comes to mind doesn’t involve AD, but rather that >> sometimes hard drives that have been spinning continuously don’t want to >> spin back up after they’ve cooled down. >> >> >> >> -Paul >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [ >> mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On >> Behalf Of *Kennedy, Jim >> *Sent:* Thursday, July 18, 2013 10:37 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [NTSysADM] Week long shutdown. >> >> >> >> We are shutting our data center down for 7 days to repair the >> HAVAC/Electrical systems. Long story but it needs to be done this way. >> Since we are a school district and it is summer we are just going to pull >> the plug on the network and let that summer staff fend for themselves. I >> have a secondary MX up with a hold and forward. >> >> >> >> There are 4 offsite DC’s that could be left running, but they will not be >> able to talk to each other, their connectivity is via the data center. I >> am thinking shut them down too. >> >> >> >> Any issues or concerns that come to mind for a week long downtime for AD? >> > >
