Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-15 Thread shimi
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/8/14 Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il: shimi wrote: Sample the UPS unit for how much battery time left do you have? and initiate automatic shutdown when the number falls below the 5 minutes threshold ?

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-15 Thread Micha Silver
shimi wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com mailto:amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/8/14 Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il mailto:mi...@arava.co.il: shimi wrote: Well, that's how UPS's are supposed to be used. In addition to

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-14 Thread shimi
2009/8/14 Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il shimi wrote: Sample the UPS unit for how much battery time left do you have? and initiate automatic shutdown when the number falls below the 5 minutes threshold ? Yes, that's probably best. Thanks. The disadvantage is that after the power comes

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-14 Thread Micha Silver
shimi wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il mailto:mi...@arava.co.il wrote: We suffered some annoying file and directory corruption on a CentOS 5.3 64 bit server two days ago after a long power failure - long enough to drain the UPS battery,

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-14 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/14 Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il: shimi wrote: Sample the UPS unit for how much battery time left do you have?  and initiate automatic shutdown when the number falls below the 5 minutes threshold ? Yes, that's probably best. Thanks. The disadvantage is that after the power comes

data loss after power failure

2009-08-13 Thread Micha Silver
We suffered some annoying file and directory corruption on a CentOS 5.3 64 bit server two days ago after a long power failure - long enough to drain the UPS battery, with several short spurts of power until it finally stabilized. Files appeared as directories, directories turned into files,

Re: data loss after power failure

2009-08-13 Thread shimi
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Micha Silver mi...@arava.co.il wrote: We suffered some annoying file and directory corruption on a CentOS 5.3 64 bit server two days ago after a long power failure - long enough to drain the UPS battery, with several short spurts of power until it finally