Our office is in the suburb of Oxley which is 20-25 mins drive from the CBD. It's just that the media have focssed a lot on the CBD.
Having said that 75% of Queensland<http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=queensland&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=62.718444,113.818359&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Queensland&t=h&z=5>is regarded a disaster zone now. So most of the state has been effected, not just the capital (Brisbane). On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > We seem to have missed this bullet. > > Our AU office is well out of the flood zone for Brisbane (which, from > what I've seen, is the CBD), though one of our employees had to > evacuate his home, and several others were not able to make it to work > because of flooding between home and office. > > I'm a bit of underwater at work at the moment myself, though in a > completely metaphorical sense, so I don't know how much I can > contribute to the discussion, but my sympathies, sir, and best of > luck. > > Kurt > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 13:36, James Hill <[email protected]> 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] > > 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 > > ~ 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
