Well....good luck with that....seriously. James
On 1/14/2011 4:36 PM, James Hill wrote: > If you've seen the news you may have heard that we've had some very > serious flooding here in Brisbane, Australia. As a result we lost our > data centre, it ended up being completely under water. We managed to > save some components thanks to some knee high walking in water before > it got too high. A very critical server was later rescued thanks to > a boat and some roof removal. Walking in to your Data Centre in knee > high water is some what depressing. Seeing the lights on equipment > that is higher in the racks(and dry) still being powered by the UPS in > a dark room filling up with water is well...uncomforting. > We are now in hectic DR mode and are restoring services as quickly as > possible. Unfortunately we didn't have a DR location(planning was > under way but nothing was in place) and so a lot of the restore means > retrieving data from tapes and building servers from scratch. > I'm in new territory here and so I'm hoping the list can help me out > with some questions that I know will arise as I work through this mess. > We have secured space in a nice and dry Data centre and have organised > WAN and Internet connectivity(although it's not fired up yet), some > rack space, and have rented VM's and disk space. > We have a 2008 level domain with a mix of 2008 and 2008 R2 DC's. The > two DC's we lost were running 2008 and held the FSMO roles. We have > C: drive and system state backups of these. We have a number of other > DC's out in our stores that are high and dry. What I would like to do > is:- > Create a new DC in the new Data Centre with a new name but running > 2008R2 (take the opportunity to upgrade it). > Give it the FSMO roles (is this possible considering the domain level > is at 2008 but the server would be 2008 R2)? > Clear out the two lost DC's from AD entirely. > Thoughts, suggestions and messages of sympathy are all welcome. > James. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
