028 - SysAdmin Horror Stories Volume 1

Welcome to the Halloween special of SysAdmin Weekly, where Andy, Eric, Paul, and Mike gather ‘round the flickering glow of their monitors to share true tales from the trenches, the ones that still haunt their uptime dreams. From flooded data centers and cursed SAN swaps to Novell nightmares, rogue backup tapes, and the eternal terror of “it’s always DNS,” this episode dives into the real-life horror stories that only SysAdmins could survive. Expect nostalgia, gallows humor, and a reminder that in IT, every scream has a log entry. Grab your candy corn, dim the lights, and join us as we celebrate the season of outages, late-night restores, and phantom pings. Because sometimes… the scariest thing in tech isn’t ransomware, it’s the guy who forgot to check the backups.... #####Episode Resources- SysAdmin Weekly Website- SysAdmin Weekly Companion Newsletters- AndyOnTech- Project Runspace- Azure 15-Year Anniversary News – Microsoft vs AWS Revenue Comparison- OpenAI Atlas Browser- KQLBench – Test LLMs on Microsoft Kusto Query Language- Novell NetWare (for the brave and nostalgic)- OS/2 Warp (IBM Historical Reference)- SharePoint Online Storage and Retention Best Practices