""The people Peanut worked for were moving to new premises, and he didn't want to lose the 400-plus days of uptime on his mail server," Bobby explained. "So he came up with a scheme to move the server and the UPS between buildings." Peanut, who was very strong, got the job of carrying the UPS. Bobby carried the smaller and lighter server."
"Peanut's employer didn't want or need the server to remain online. Indeed, during the move it wasn't connected to anything and therefore couldn't send or receive mail. But the somewhat daft scheme worked and the server did continue running. "It all went really well and we got the UPS and the mail server into the new building without any mishaps," Bobby told On Call. Peanut therefore preserved his uptime streak."
Peanut was a Mac technician and a Linux user with a fanatical appetite for unbroken uptime. The mail server under Peanut's care had more than 400 days of continuous operation. To preserve the streak during an office relocation, Peanut devised a plan to move the server and its UPS between buildings; Peanut carried the UPS and a colleague carried the smaller server. The server was disconnected during the transfer and could not send or receive mail, yet it continued running. Days later Peanut, logged into multiple Linux machines via the same CLI, rebooted one to finish updates and accidentally rebooted the mail server, ending the uptime run.
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