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Steven Peck
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]>wrote:

> At least the sharks didn't have bears riding on their backs.
>
> Sean Martin wrote:
>
>> 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
>>        <
>> 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.
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