I wouldn't suggest that, either. A moving company is preferred, I'd just find out what experience they have and what preparations they make for moving equipment.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:26 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: > We did, unfortunately have total shutdowns during hurricane sandy-for 4 > days, > > so as the power was restored everything came back clean- > > Maybe I should just load up all the servers in my truck, and drive to the > new office? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jean-Paul Natola > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 21:58:23 -0400 > > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > The risk for the disks is being powered down, not just physically moved. > I would be present and observe the loading and unloading of equipment. > You just introduce complexity into your situation by pulling the drives > out. They need to be labeled for each server, and should be labeled for > each slot. I know some controllers can import raid configurations from > drives, I'm just not comfortable with that additional risk. > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:42 PM, 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] <[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?* > *** > > > > >
