[clug] RE: [UNCLASSIFIED] Revising drowned hardware

[Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au]

Hmm, that should have been *reviving* drowned hardware.

Anyway, the damage was far less than it might have been, and
my allmost off-site backup of the fileserver was dry, so I'm
optimistic that data loss will be minimal. All the same, we
poured a lot of water out of PC cases last night.

This list and Google turned up much good advice:
 - strip pars out and cofirm proper operation part by part starting
   from PSU and bare mobo.
 - test parts in a PC you don't mind blowing up before re-installing
   them in valuable systems
 - Don't try to revive drowned CRTs
 - we found crispy smells in the PSUs of some equipment (status to be confirmed)
 - I'm glad data was centralised and that fax/firewall/print servers
   can be relatively easily built from new gear
 - Some PC cases kept the insides almost completely dry
 - Any backup arrangement you can cobble together is better than none at all

Thanks to people who have offered equipment. :o)

Antti

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-bounces+antti.roppola=brs.gov.au at lists.samba.org [mailto:linux-bounces+antti.roppola=brs.gov.au at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Roppola, Antti - BRS
Sent: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 3:08 PM
To: linux at samba.org
Subject: [clug] [UNCLASSIFIED] Revising drowned hardware

Hi all,

Last night's storm collapsed the ceiling in the server room of the community organisation I SysAdmin for. Apparently there was a lot of water raining onto the racks, and about 3" on the floor.

Has anyone got any good advice on a plan of attack?

Thus far:
 - recover hard disks from main fileserver and financials PC. Dry them out.
 - recover hard disk from backup server that was not off site enough. Dry it out.
 - test mount backup server data disk on dry hardware.
 - Dry out fileserver. Replace PSU and see if it'll boot (sans data disks).

Presumably I should try get into the building ASAP so I can dry the server out before things start corroding. Any ideas on how to best dry out a server?

Antti

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