Its been a quiet week for me this week – I’ve been out on site for three days but the guys back at the office has been busy. We were burgled on Sunday night and they stole ALL the NT/w2K servers so the disaster recovery plan was invoked – yeah right, of course it was!
Replacement servers arrive tomorrow so we have loads of restores to do – I’m a bit nervous about this as I’ve never had to do a complete DR on a NT box, mainly because once a server is up and running it gets used immediately and so there is no chance that you can back it up, format the disk and then try a restore from scratch. What is going to make it even more interesting is that these boxes use Active Directory and one of them has Exchange 2000 on it! Seeing as though the thieving scumbags also stole the firewall we’ve had no internet access at the office 🙁
At least this will give me some good experience in DR and hopefully wake some heads up to persuade people to pay more attention to DR and my requests for tape drives to be fitted (as guess how many machines didn’t have one!) When I requested a tape drive I even got the go-ahead and the order was ready to go when someone else ripped the paperwork up and refused the tape drive – so that machine is not backed up!