{"id":1874,"date":"2013-05-11T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T02:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:37:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:37:48","slug":"7-things-you-dont-want-in-server-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/7-things-you-dont-want-in-server-room","title":{"rendered":"7 things you don’t want in your server room"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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…<\/h3>\n

1. Servers choking on years of dust<\/h2>\n
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2. Bins precariously placed above your backup tapes to catch water from the air conditioner<\/h2>\n

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3. A spaghetti pile of cabling<\/h2>\n

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4. A fluoro spaghetti pile of cabling<\/h2>\n

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5. A toilet nested among spaghetti cabling<\/h2>\n

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6. A raccoon in the server room<\/h2>\n

(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<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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7. A fire. Never a fire. Ever.<\/h2>\n