Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Brian Ryans <brian.l.ryans@gmail.com> wrote:
> Quoting The_Ace on 2011-09-14 03:08:
>> drop database Live_database;
>>
>> Restored the previous day's backup and blamed it on a bad power supply :P
>
> You coulda blamed it on any of the outputs of "fortune bofh-excuses" and
> most users would likely not know.
>
> My worst administration mistake? Forgetting to check asset numbers
> before sanitizing a machine -- I'd sanitized an actively used
> diagnostics computer instead of the identical-looking machine sitting
> right next to it. Though that machine was the cleanest in the shop
> afterwards. dban, dish soap, compressed air and water.
Similar story:
We once unracked and decommissioned a server because someone had
accidentally switched the face-plates. We now label faceplate, some
point under the faceplate, and the back side as well.
What we actually unracked was a VM host. Luckily all the guests
vmotioned elsewhere, It was still a mess though.
I wasn't involved in that one. :-)
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