Preparing for the storm
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Best of luck with the storm. We were supposed to be headed to Jacksonville for a few days on Thursday. Looks like we'll be postponing until after the storm.
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@IRJ Thats how we in Buffalo know we are actually getting a good storm when TWC shows up and you see Cantore on the streets
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@jt1001001 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ Thats how we in Buffalo know we are actually getting a good storm when TWC shows up and you see Cantore on the streets
Might had better hitch a ride with him on the way out!
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Who is Cantore?
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What amazes me is the complacency in my neighborhood now. I am the only one boarding windows. It is unreal, people still have crap in their yard. We picked everything up last night, starting cutting wood and boarding window, packed all the food and water we will need, and clothing.
We still have a bunch to do today. I am at work this morning and I am hoping to leave by noon.
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@scottalanmiller said in Preparing for the storm:
Who is Cantore?
Probably the most famous storm chaser there is. He is the guy that is always right in the middle of hell.
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@IRJ Why the hell would you go into work, unless you have to water proof work as a part of your job?
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@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ Why the hell would you go into work, unless you have to water proof work as a part of your job?
Our data center is on the island.....
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@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ Why the hell would you go into work, unless you have to water proof work as a part of your job?
Our data center is on the island.....
ouch.... that will be a rough one.....
Well work fast, and best of luck to you and your family!
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@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ Why the hell would you go into work, unless you have to water proof work as a part of your job?
Our data center is on the island.....
ouch.... that will be a rough one.....
Well work fast, and best of luck to you and your family!
Luckily we use replication to another site, but we recently implemented that. We did our first initial testing on Monday which had nothing to do with Matthew (it was scheduled for months). It went ok, but we ran into some issues. So I guess we have a real test now.
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@IRJ sorry, I had my real test last night, cluster went up in "smoke" around 10PM, and worked until 3:45 to get back to a workable state.
Waiting for vendors to call me to troubleshoot hardware / price recovery options.
I personally would like to go and just perform a clean install on the working hardware we have as a standalone server, and then when this second server comes up use continuous replication to that host.
But the hardware is acting weird, so gotta troubleshoot that.
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@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ Why the hell would you go into work, unless you have to water proof work as a part of your job?
Our data center is on the island.....
ouch.... that will be a rough one.....
Well work fast, and best of luck to you and your family!
Luckily we use replication to another site, but we recently implemented that. We did our first initial testing on Monday which had nothing to do with Matthew (it was scheduled for months). It went ok, but we ran into some issues. So I guess we have a real test now.
You haven't had it up to this point? What made it suddenly (OK we know how non sudden things like this can seem) important? Don't you get hit by huge storms every year?
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@Dashrender said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ Why the hell would you go into work, unless you have to water proof work as a part of your job?
Our data center is on the island.....
ouch.... that will be a rough one.....
Well work fast, and best of luck to you and your family!
Luckily we use replication to another site, but we recently implemented that. We did our first initial testing on Monday which had nothing to do with Matthew (it was scheduled for months). It went ok, but we ran into some issues. So I guess we have a real test now.
You haven't had it up to this point? What made it suddenly (OK we know how non sudden things like this can seem) important? Don't you get hit by huge storms every year?
Well, we aren't a huge company so costs was a barrier for awhile. It took us about 2 years to get where everything was duplicated offsite in another location.
In 200 years we have never had a direct hit from a hurricane. This is the reason the US government has 3 military bases and the Space Center within a few miles of each other. The gulf streams starts to pull offshore here which pushes bigger storms out to sea. Even if you look at the hurricane model now, you will see where the hurricane starts getting pushed off the coast. That is the Gulf Stream pulling it. It is very strong here.
Just to show you how powerful the Gulf Stream is here. We are known for ship wrecks. Many of the shipwrecks come from South Florida and the Keys, but have been pushed up here over time.
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@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ Why the hell would you go into work, unless you have to water proof work as a part of your job?
Our data center is on the island.....
ouch.... that will be a rough one.....
Well work fast, and best of luck to you and your family!
Luckily we use replication to another site, but we recently implemented that. We did our first initial testing on Monday which had nothing to do with Matthew (it was scheduled for months). It went ok, but we ran into some issues. So I guess we have a real test now.
So you basically have a datacenter on an island which is in a region that has a major hurricane at least once a year - and you didn't have any kind of replication / redundancy until shortly?
Tener cojones
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@thwr said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@DustinB3403 said in Preparing for the storm:
@IRJ Why the hell would you go into work, unless you have to water proof work as a part of your job?
Our data center is on the island.....
ouch.... that will be a rough one.....
Well work fast, and best of luck to you and your family!
Luckily we use replication to another site, but we recently implemented that. We did our first initial testing on Monday which had nothing to do with Matthew (it was scheduled for months). It went ok, but we ran into some issues. So I guess we have a real test now.
So you basically have a datacenter on an island which is in a region that has a major hurricane at least once a year - and you didn't have any kind of replication / redundancy until shortly?
Tener cojones
Pretty Much. I am just a monkey, it isn't my circus.
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@IRJ stay safe and take care. Good luck
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When do you leave the island?
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@StrongBad said in Preparing for the storm:
When do you leave the island?
Mandatory Evacuation is at 3PM today. I am leaving work at noon.
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@IRJ said in Preparing for the storm:
@StrongBad said in Preparing for the storm:
When do you leave the island?
Mandatory Evacuation is at 3PM today. I am leaving work at noon.
Chicago news mentioned it is a cat 3 now.
