This actually sounds most like a Chanukah miracle. Electricity being sort of metaphorically equivalent to oil and all... :)
> On Dec 26, 2019, at 05:47, Chavdar Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > This morning around 06:10 we must have had a power cut - I was fast > asleep. This rarely happens over here; the security systems sirens > started wailing, as usual. > > I have no battery backup anywhere in the house. When I woke up; I > checked on my physical and virtual machine zoo; everything appeared as > normal (with the exception of one -current laptop with a weak battery, > which apparently had shut itself down - it didn't need an fsck upon > restart). So far so good, all machines showed approximately the same > boot time. > > With one exception. My super duper DNS server (local unbound) > Raspberry PI - original model B - server running > > $ uname -a > NetBSD eee 8.99.2 NetBSD 8.99.2 (RPI) #0: Sun Sep 17 00:08:51 UTC 2017 > sysbuild@ymir:/home/sysbuild/evbarm/obj/home/sysbuild/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI > evbarm > > showed > > $ uptime > 10:08AM up 318 days, 7 mins, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 > > and I was able to ssh to it and restore my tmux session as if nothing > has happened. To the same power multiblock I have connected - another > Raspbery PI - Zero, running 9.99.17 - which was restarted at the time; > the Virgin Media router also shows the same boot time. > > As I mentioned above, no battery backup; other than some super > capacitor in the power supply, I have no explanation and I haven't > heard of such cheap power supplies; I think it still uses the > original power supply I bought with all those years ago. > > Here you are. > > Chavdar > > (*) or Christmas/Boxing day miracle, whatever you prefer. > -- > ----
