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Rain stops play at Wimbledon and on UKSBSGUY

As many of you know, while I always advice having a server hosted in "proper" locations with adequate resources.  Then I run mine on a SBS box back at home (limited funds).  Well today we had some rain, hail stones, lightening and thunder today and the result was a few power cuts.  What happens, well the server fails and shuts down.  I reboot it to discover one of the drives missing.  However I thought it had been overwritten and started to panic.  The good news is that the backups work, but the disk had simply failed to re-power after the lightening and putting it back in the system fixed all.

As you can see, the site is back up and running!!

 

ttfn

David

Posted Tue, Jul 3 2007 4:05 PM by David Overton

Comments

Tim Long wrote re: Rain stops play at Wimbledon and on UKSBSGUY
on Tue, Jul 3 2007 5:28 PM

I've had a few "power incidents" on my home SBS server and I must say, I'm totally impressed with how well Windows Server and SBS recovers from that. No substitute for redundancy and backup, but impressive nevertheless.

Vijay Singh Riyait wrote re: Rain stops play at Wimbledon and on UKSBSGUY
on Tue, Jul 3 2007 9:07 PM

Okay, we can't afford downtime on UKSBSGUY so does this mean we're going to have a whip round to get some redundancy for you? Have you thought about MS Finance, we'll do you a good deal :-) There were some very helpful suggestions for you on the Yahoo SBS2K site!!

After hearing about the blogging experiences of another well known Microsoft person, I think it's a wise move not running it on MS Servers seeing as it contains a lot of your own personal knowledge!

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