Here's what you need: Good backups and good spare drives.
If you've got those, you'll be fine in the event of a bad failure. If it's a normal event, like your previous hurricane-related shutdown(s), you'll be fine. I'm betting that you'll be up and running tomorrow without any issues. (If you have any issues, of course bring them here and we'll try to help.) And finally, please let us know how it turns out now that everyone's interested. Hoping for a stress free night... Richard 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?* > *** > > > > >
