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Re: The Day the Uptime Died

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On 2025-10-26, Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
> Am 26.10.2025 00:55 Uhr schrieb Tom Mix:
>
>> Management said, “Make sure this never happens again.”
>> I said, “Sure. Step one: Don’t move racks with archaeology still in
>> them.”
>
> And that's why running machines that are unknown to the employees is a
> rather bad idea.
>
> Ancient machines will fail at some point.
> Is there someone who knows what is running on them and how to set that
> up again on another machine?
>
> No?
> Than you might have a really bad day in a situation where you never
> like such an outage.
>
> Do you have spare parts?
> Do you have all the installation media and backups of it?
>
> TLDR: I like to run old stuff for fun, but I would never run such a
> machine in a mission-critical environment, as the risk of a long-term
> outage is too high.
>

Relax, this was just a story from 8-10 years ago. All is good

-- 
Tom Mix

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The Day the Uptime Died Tom Mix <tommix@dev.null> - 2025-10-26 00:55 +0000
  Re: The Day the Uptime Died The Wizard of Izz <horchata12839@gmail.com> - 2025-10-25 20:39 -0500
  Re: The Day the Uptime Died Marco Moock <mm+solani@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-10-26 09:58 +0100
    Re: The Day the Uptime Died Tom Mix <tommix@dev.null> - 2025-10-26 12:02 +0000
      Re: The Day the Uptime Died Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> - 2025-10-26 08:26 -0400
  Re: The Day the Uptime Died Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> - 2025-10-26 08:13 -0400

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