I work at a data center... we host about 5000 dedicated servers. quite often, we take down servers (client stopped paying, server is no longer needed, etc). after taking them down, we save the hard drives for a month, just in case the client needs his server back up (this is especially true when they stop paying... once they realize their site is down, clients tend to be prompt with getting payment to us).
I was working on building a new setup tonight, when I found a stack of hard drives from servers that were pulled yesterday -- as standard, there were labels on the drives with the IP's and a note to save them until 02/01/05, but they were not put in the lockbox where we save drives. had I not read the labels -- and most of us don't, when a drive is just sitting in the middle of the table in the build room -- I'd have formatted them and used them in the new box I'm building.
Ordinarily, I'd just write the person an email and tell them to be more careful next time, but I can't find out who took these servers down.
If you were in my situation, would you "tattle" on the coworker to your boss (who has access to find out who took down the servers), or assume it was a one-time mistake, put the drives in the lockbox, and leave well enough alone? it could have been a pretty costly mistake if a client needed the drives put back online and we didn't have them, but it's not something that someone would get fired over. and with reviews coming up this month, I'd hate to screw someone out of a raise.
I was working on building a new setup tonight, when I found a stack of hard drives from servers that were pulled yesterday -- as standard, there were labels on the drives with the IP's and a note to save them until 02/01/05, but they were not put in the lockbox where we save drives. had I not read the labels -- and most of us don't, when a drive is just sitting in the middle of the table in the build room -- I'd have formatted them and used them in the new box I'm building.
Ordinarily, I'd just write the person an email and tell them to be more careful next time, but I can't find out who took these servers down.
If you were in my situation, would you "tattle" on the coworker to your boss (who has access to find out who took down the servers), or assume it was a one-time mistake, put the drives in the lockbox, and leave well enough alone? it could have been a pretty costly mistake if a client needed the drives put back online and we didn't have them, but it's not something that someone would get fired over. and with reviews coming up this month, I'd hate to screw someone out of a raise.
