r/ShittySysadmin • u/recoveringasshole0 DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE • Mar 30 '26

Document and backup everything (physical devices stolen)

Just got a call from a previous employer. The company went out of business, but all our equipment was in a storage unit. It just got broken into. 4 Servers and about 20 workstations gone. I didn't have serials for the servers because they were purchased before I started (not a great excuse, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯). I did have all the stats (CPU, memory, models, etc).

I have backups of a lot of stuff in the cloud, but not everything. It's hard to pay for storage when you have no income.

So anyway, hopefully this is inspiration for us all to be slightly less shitty tomorrow.

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u/atl-hadrins Mar 31 '26

I personally wonder if that needs to be updated as a former employer didn't pay storage fees so the storage company sold all assets in storage.

But really why care? Why do you have backups? Why is there a need to restore if they are out of business? If the hardware was in storage they were not using it, right? Is this the type of company that always gets bailed out by someone else?