Post your IT redundancy tales here (awful.systems)

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I'm in our daily standup and it's turned into exchanging fucked up sysadmin redundancy tales.

One place I worked lost a machine room. They'd fired people so fast that nobody remembered where the boxes were any more.

I knew, but they didn't ask me. Oh well!

The cycle of IT binge and purge is eternal. Post your tales here.

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[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Company Z:

Oh God. I worked as an NSE with F5 for seven years and had the opportunity to join dozens of "oh God everything's fucked" calls, and autosync was a factor in the majority of them. I'm not sure why you would want half-finished virtual servers pushed onto your active production devices, but damn if people weren't doing that all the blasted time.

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