[Cialug] Slightly OT: Server Room Temperature

[Jonathan C. Bailey]

I should say if possible.. If there is a fire in the server room, all bets are off. I didn't quite intend it *that* way. We do keep offsite backups, but they are not moved offsite as often.


-Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave J. Hala Jr." <dave at 58ghz.net>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:07:46 AM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Slightly OT: Server Room Temperature

If there's a fire, your standing orders are to go into the server room,
pull the drives, then leave? That would scare me to death.

Wouldn't regular off site backups be a better choice?





On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 09:14 -0500, Jonathan C. Bailey wrote:
> I don't believe we have any pipes in our server room.. I may be wrong. The closest to a fire we've been was because the building has 3 phase power and we have a single phase panel. To add to that, the phases weren't balanced... You can guess what almost happened next.
> 
> Also, our standing order is that, if possible, just grab the 3 drives in the backup server.
> 
> 
> -Jon
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffrey C. Ollie" <jeff at ocjtech.us>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:32:39 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Slightly OT: Server Room Temperature
> 
> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 13:35 -0500, Justin Richeson wrote:
> >
> >   Also, please...PLEASE tell me you don't have a water based fire
> > suppression system in use!
> 
> In some instances, fire codes may require water based fire suppression
> systems, even in a data center.  I don't think that's a problem around
> here, but in any case when the fire department shows up with their hoses
> they aren't going to worry about damaging your servers when they start
> hosing down your building.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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