I'd like to reply to item one. The cheapest insurance you can have (for
your equipment (that is, literally, it's logevity), operational reliability,
software (lack of corruption problems), piece of mind, personal free-time,
etc.) is a GOOD surge/spike (maybe with RFI) protector, or two, and a quick
(less than 4 micro-seconds (less is better, but the extra speed may or may
not be necessary)) UninterruptablePowerSupply (operating at 50% or less).
I say two surge/spike protectors because they use MOVs and these can take
hits and lose effectiveness, and there is no way to test for it. I've had
problems and found tham caused by power, and I use 2 surge/spikes and a UPS.
Color me conservative!
I suggest a UPS running at less than 50% of rated capacity because that
gives more operating time "on battery" to complete operations and shut down,
and room to grow: i.e. you can replace equipment (even add) without worrying
about exceeding the capacity of the UPS (in which case it would very likely
fail to work).
A UPS is one thing you can buy based on specifications, surge/spikes less
so. A well reputed manufacturer will cost you a little, but this will pay
back over the life of the item. Just try to find support or batteries for a
UPS a couple of years after the company sold the operation. I was fortunate
that I could take care of the problem, and when I needed to buy a replacement
UPS I bought APC brand (a very good brand in the United States, often used
for network servers). Find out what equipment is being used to protect
networks, it's a good general measure of quality. -Gary-
In a message dated 6/18/2000 3:36:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Hi Friends
1. What safety measures/preventative action should I take to minimise the
effects of sudden power failures.
2. I read somewhere that switching off the system without logging out in the
recommended manner (equivalent to a power failure) can/will (I'm not sure
which) result in corruption of sys files rendering LM unbootable (or was
that an exageration).
3. For example are there special keyboard inputs I can make to save that
which is in Ram as I go along, say every 10 minutes.
4. Win will scan the disk and save corrupt or unlinked files - what does LM
do in this situation.
Thanks
Alan (South Africa)
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