3 weeks. Tops.
And by "datacenter" I assume you mean "2 old PC's running Netware 3.11, and a 2-port mechanical KVM", right? -sc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 12:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. The entire datacenter by yourself? WOW!!! Even superman -sc wouldn't attempt that by himself. J Thanks Webster From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Cook Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 11:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. You don't say! Actually this has been a good discussion as I'm moving a Datacenter myself in a month. John W. Cook Network Operations Manager Partnership For Strong Families 5950 NW 1st Place Gainesville, Fl 32607 Office (352) 244-1610 Cell (352) 215-6944 MCSE, MCP+I, MCTS, CompTIA A+, N+, Security+ VSP4, VTSP4 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 12:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. Jean-Paul Natola ________________________________ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] 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 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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 ________________________________ 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. 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