Make sure your backups are current. Wouldn't hurt to have some spare hard drives. We moved our corporate 7 years ago. Only lost 2 drives on separate systems. No data loss.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. 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]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:03 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 10:37 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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?
