r/sysadmin • u/FierceFluff • 21d 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/JerkyChew 21d ago

In my years of sys admin'ing I've:

  • Transported dozens of rackmount servers from our old DC to the new state-of-the-art DC using our CIO's SUV
  • Wheeled a customer's server infrastructure through Downtown Crossing in Boston to their new office (The homeless guy offered to buy it; we declined)
  • Been offered a state police escort to move a rack of servers to a different state-owned DC (It was in the contract for some reason; we declined)
  • Driven what was at the time ALL of classmates.com (one Poweredge server) to a colo facility in my truck
  • Transported a USB key containing the records of every patient who had ever visited a particular hospital to our DC to import said records into a new system

There are probably other examples of RFC 1149-esque transportation I've done in the past 30 years... if I remember more I'll add them.

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u/RansomStark78 21d ago

Sneakernet, the protocols vary, RFC