[cfgeeks] So Gil...

[Kevin P. Inscoe]

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syberghost wrote:
> I've never had anything near that bad.  My worst moment that wasn't my
> fault was this:
> 
> The power goes out.  It's been over half an hour and it's still out.
> At the time I was an ops monkey in the monitoring team.  Our Managing
> Director calls in and asks for a status update, and I tell him:
> 
> "Everything's fine, Chuck.  I just visually verified the generator is
> running, and hardware tells me the transfer switch is green, so in a
> few minutes when the batteries hit their threshold the switch will
> kick in and we'll be on generator."
> 
> All the lights go out.  The data center is completely dark, and the
> ominous sound of a thousand disks spinning down is all you can hear.
> 
> "Uhm, I'm gonna have to call you back."
> 
> It was 19 hours after the power came back that the DBAs pronounced the
> last Production database fully recovered; we spent the next month
> planning, and the next year executing, a move of all Production
> servers to Memphis.
> 
> Where, a year or so later, we had a big power mishap and it took 38
> hours to get the last database happy.  :(

My first VAX job ever after 3 mos. on the job (1984 or so) I come in one
morning and there is the fire dept. all over the place (about 5am). Is
seems the country club next door parks their gold carts under our data
center in a parking garage and one of them while be recharged overnight
 caught fire. I run up to the DC. As soon ass I hit the hallway thich
black oily greasy soot every where. We called DEC and had another 780
sitting in the parking lot the next day. The trailer came a week later. ;-)

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