I am not a lawyer... That exposes you to a high degree of personal exposure to a potentially devastating situation. Make your backups, test them, then hand the hardware over to the people with the equipment and insurance to address the physical security.
And all this science I don't understand It's just my job five days a week Elton John "Rocket Man" On Jul 18, 2013, at 20:43, "J- P" <[email protected]> wrote: > Would it not reduce the risk if I have them with me , rather than in a box > truck? > > > > > > > > > > > > Jean-Paul Natola > > > > Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:39:18 -0400 > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > I'm not sure it's worth the risk... > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:33 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe a better approach would be to removes the drives from all servers, and > drive them down myself? > > > > > > > > > > > > Jean-Paul Natola > > > > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:16:04 -0700 > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. > To: [email protected] > > > 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]] > 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]] > 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? > >
