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It’s going to be a bad day when you pop into the server room to use your favorite backup software and find…
1. Servers choking on years of dust
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2. Bins precariously placed above your backup tapes to catch water from the air conditioner
- Image via The Register
3. A spaghetti pile of cabling
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4. A fluoro spaghetti pile of cabling
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5. A toilet nested among spaghetti cabling
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6. A raccoon in the server room
(Ok so this raccoon hasn’t been in a server room but the team over at Rally Dev actually had a raccoon tear apart their racks last year.)
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