Jean-Paul Natola
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Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown.
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:15:15 +0000
The issue is that everything cools down after being run for so long. Bearings
freeze up, electronic connectors contract, etc. And it’s not necessarily just
hard drives. Cooling fans, power supplies, etc. Removing
them from the chassis won’t change anything and might even make things worse.
If you have to move a server, I’d keep everything in place. Again, have good
backups and have a few spares handy.
-Paul
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On Behalf Of J- P
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown.
Maybe a better approach would be to removes the drives from all servers, and
drive them down myself?
Jean-Paul Natola
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:16:04 -0700
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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?
