When your server begins to receive faulty scsi controller in your logs. Keep in mind that you’ll have to prepare for future catastrophic event.
But servers do need to retire and in most cases, these are no longer warranted, so might as well get a replacement ASAP…
This just happened to me last Friday and while I’m on-leave with my daughter’s school activity, I went back to office at around 5PM to build a new server and copy back the data from the failing one.
Good thing is that I got a great team with me! I got them to do the necessary steps before I arrived. The sharing permissions were imported from the registry, xcopy was set to run after office hours and a good backup of the data was in place.
Two months ago, I build a spare server for a project that I have yet to assign which I've configured with OS only. So that night, I started installing service packs, other applications, security templates, patches and hotfixes.
Before 10PM, everything was ready. Monday came and still the same problem, so we made it offline and configured the users logon scripts and connect the new server to the network.
I’m trying now to reset and rebuild the faulty server but the problem seems to have escalated and it won’t even boot up. I guess we’re lucky enough to have switch to our spare in the nick of time…
Here’s my day with my wife and daughter that afternoon before I drove back to office…
But servers do need to retire and in most cases, these are no longer warranted, so might as well get a replacement ASAP…
This just happened to me last Friday and while I’m on-leave with my daughter’s school activity, I went back to office at around 5PM to build a new server and copy back the data from the failing one.
Good thing is that I got a great team with me! I got them to do the necessary steps before I arrived. The sharing permissions were imported from the registry, xcopy was set to run after office hours and a good backup of the data was in place.
Two months ago, I build a spare server for a project that I have yet to assign which I've configured with OS only. So that night, I started installing service packs, other applications, security templates, patches and hotfixes.
Before 10PM, everything was ready. Monday came and still the same problem, so we made it offline and configured the users logon scripts and connect the new server to the network.
I’m trying now to reset and rebuild the faulty server but the problem seems to have escalated and it won’t even boot up. I guess we’re lucky enough to have switch to our spare in the nick of time…
Here’s my day with my wife and daughter that afternoon before I drove back to office…
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