crikey!
http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2011/01/14/ipswich-bull-sharks-spotted-flood-affected-streets/
Bill
James Hill 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
<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]
<mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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.
>
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