I fully agree. The server that blew it's power supply was on a surge protector - so should have been protected, but wasn't (obviously). So, the option was to spend $35+ for a good surge protector or for only $20 more, I could get some battery backup as well (and an overall better surge protector - not to mention the $50K warranty).
That's why I mentioned the 700VA ups I was planning on getting - my servers SHOULD do a graceful shutdown in the event of power loss. But, using a journalized filesystem and the servers not being under heavy load lessens the impact some. Shawn On Friday 19 November 2004 16:36, s. keeling wrote: > Personally, I think the point of a UPS is to keep them up long enough > for them to do an orderly shutdown, not to keep them up until the > power comes back. �If I unplug the UPS from the wall socket, and the > UPS tells the attached systems to shutdown gracefully, that's all I > expect of it. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
