<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allen@ua.edu" target="_blank">allen@ua.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We were all here bright and early on Sunday morning to do our yearly DR failover exercise (failing to our colo site in Atlanta), and some optimist brought up that "it could be worse, we could be at Emory and actually having a disaster right now..." Yeah, that didn't make me feel any more awake at 7:00 on a Sunday morning..lol<br>
So, how is the recovery from that going over there?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am happily ignorant of the scope of the mess. All of my stuff runs Linux and Emory UTS is not allowed to even look in the direction of the cabinets! <br>
<br></div><div>Payroll systems were wiped out as was everything in the library and most smaller departments that don't have dedicated support staff.<br><br></div><div>I saw the notice the following Monday and burst out laughing. I was in the building with payroll staff and was informed they got wiped out. My humour vanished rather quickly. At this point all servers are back and all desktops are working but all files from the day of the wipe are likely gone as the re-image happened before/during backups.<br>
<br></div><div>I'm glad I don't work with that bunch.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Subject: [ale] I didn't post this but I saw it happening<br>
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<a href="http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/17/051214/emory-university-sccm-server-accidentally-reformats-all-computers-campus-wide" target="_blank">http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/17/051214/emory-university-sccm-server-accidentally-reformats-all-computers-campus-wide</a><br>
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Um. Yeah. Centralized control is great until it's not.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br><i><i><i><i><br></i></i></i></i>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br><i><i><i><i><br><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br></i></i></i></i></div>
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