Of course, it has to be asked – did they have fricken' laser beams on their heads?
---- Jack Kramer Computer Systems Specialist University Relations, Michigan State University w: 517-884-1231 / c: 248-635-4955 From: Sean Martin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:11:36 -0500 To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: OT:So...our data centre is under water 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]<mailto:[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]> <mailto:[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]> <mailto:[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. > > ~ 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]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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
