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Today I have a very unique update from the normal types of updates I deliver. I'm updating from the Oklahoma Conservation Commissions main file server (occsrv7)! I received an email this morning from a woman in our Water Quality division, she seems to have deleted a file on accident and asked me to restore that file for her. So this has given me a chance to test the backup system and restore her lost file to last weeks backup. *note Erik you were right, we've never tried this before so I'm the first, so far, so good* I've had to rearrange some of our back up tapes to get the file off of the correct tape. Right now it's scanning and restoring (I think), I've been down here for about 30 min so far, and the restoration has been going for about 10 min. I started to get bored down in this server room, so I thought I'd update the ol' Blog. You should see this place, it's full of a few dozen state servers (the Oklahoma Lottery Commissions computer is right behind me actually....it's kinda cool) that are being stored in what is called the office of state finance. It's in the basement, and it's really cold down here. I actually like it though, every time I walk in here it smells like....awesome. I can't explain it, but it's probably the smell of dozens of computers running and being cooled by many fans and an amazing AC unit. I know that's pretty weird thing to say, but, well it reminds me of Quakecon. You go in there, and it's freezing, and you can hear thousands of computers on at the same time, and the air has this heavy cold feeling, and it's awesome. Ok, I think I've talked about the smell of the office of state finance long enough. Let me check on my restoration really quick like. Hmm...still says running. I'm starting to think I should go get lunch, then come back to see how its doing. The file was not that big so I'm confused why this would take longer than 10 min or so. Ok, well I'm going to go get some lunch, and maybe take a few pictures of the server room to accompany my post. Yay for iPhone.
Here are some pictures of the Server Room, and a fun one from walmart!
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3 comments:
i bet it smells like ionized air which is usually what happens to air when electrical currents move through it. like the smell of the air when something short-circuits minus the melting wire insulation smell. dude that's hella cool though. i just wish they could reduce the energy usage for server/data facilities. its one of the things i've been reading up on to help me get LEED certified (government certification of my knowledge about building "green"). and i mean why not? efficiency is beautiful if you ask me. and efficiency is "green". blah blah i ramble.
Yeah I bet the smell you're talking about is what I'm talking about. It's awesome. Regardless, going Green on these data centers must be pretty hard, the A/C is set at like minus a billion in there, plus all those computer running 24/7. damns.
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