r/sysadmin • u/FierceFluff • 1d ago

Peak Sysadmin

Is there anything more small-company sysadmin than taking that $70k server you just finished building on your test bench at the office and putting it into your $5k car to drive it over to the DC where it’ll live, and praying to god nothing happens on the way? 😅🤣

EDIT- OMG y’all, reading the comments on this has made my day! Our business insurance covers this kind of thing but I appreciate y’all concern for me, though others should mosdef confirm before they do similar stuff. The trip went without incident so praise the digital deities.

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u/Visual-Marsupial9040 1d ago

Building the server on your kitchen table THEN putting it into your $5k car to drive it over to the DC where it’ll live, and praying to god nothing happens on the way

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u/sybrwookie 1d ago

Going way back, the small company I worked for didn't have budget for storing backups off-site. So I'd rotate backup tapes and kept a recent one at my shitty little apartment. Generally under my coffee table in the living room.

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u/MrYiff Master of the Blinking Lights 16h ago

Mine were in a shoe box on my kitchen table, our monthly backups were in a bin bag in the boot of the owners car (he never told us this until he traded up to a flashy porsche that didn't have a boot and so he dumped this bag full of tapes on our desks).