Umm....you're one to ask for photos! ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist. On Jan 14, 2011 5:59 PM, "Jacob" <[email protected]> wrote: > Photos? > > > > From: James Hill [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 1:36 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: So...our data centre is under water > > > > 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
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