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My company is currently in the process of relocation to a newly constructed building, i have not been part of the original design process (new hire), so am looking for resources, advice, horror stories, checklists directly related to network / data center relocation.

Anyone have experience/ advice for mirroring lotus notes email at a second location

I have seen a previous thread but other than 1 link it was pretty thread bare ;)

Also there is a general 3 page checklist that i found pretty helpfull
https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5138-6337-730280.html?tag=search

Any help will be appreciated

best regards
oz

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by mf77777

I just went through the same thing about a month ago. Here is my advice.

1. Something will fail. Obviously you need good backups for your servers, but make sure you also have backups of all your cisco configs and firewall policies.
2. Make sure your DRP is up to date. During the move, the only information that may save you are whatever is in there.
3. Document every piece of equipment. One thing that I did was to label IP addresses and VLANs on everything. It made putting it all together much easier.
4. Make sure you have spare disks around. I lost about 4 just moving the equipment.
5. If you are moving any circuits, start talking to your providers early. They like to drag their feet. Get them to commit dates ASAP.

I guess those are the big things, sorry I can't help you with the Lotus Notes though.

Good Luck,

m

P.S. Put in for some time off about a week after the whole move is done (before anyone else can). It gives you some time to fix the little things and gives you a break. I put in about 100 hours a week during our move.

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