I have never been in our AU office, but it's in Stafford, which looks to be about 1/2 hour North of Oxley.
Given that Stafford Heights is not far away, I'll guess that our office is elevated above the flood plain - the terrain view on Google Maps seems to confirm this as well. Kurt On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 16:07, James Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 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 ~ 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
