>our poor ups didn't have much of a chance to keep the real >debian server going for long. usually i at least turn the >monitors off when leaving for extended periods... sadly, these >outages were major bigtmie -- whole sections of town were out >for hours at a time. >
why do you have the monitor & peripherals plugged into the UPS? i keep a spare cable so if i decide the outage will be too long I can put the monitor back into the UPS, but to just ride out the outage u're far better off without the UPS

