A lot of people thought the stories of the mass animal deaths were a sign of
the coming apocalypse. I think seeing two sharks swimming past your local
McDonalds would be more of a sign!

- Sean

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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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