I strongly agree regarding the spare drives (or at least preparations for fast acquisition). If a drive is going to fail, its during/after a large physical move. I've seen this happen many times.
-- Espi On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]>wrote: > 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] > 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] <[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?* > *** >
