On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Minh Van Le wrote: > I'm now left with a heavy motive for a UPS and tape backup solution or > freshmeat's mkcdrec/mondo or something. The real problem is however, > overcoming some of the weirdness of the aftermath of severe electrical > turbulence effecting my server.
If it was electrical brownout/surge etc you should consider replacing the computers power supply as well. Even though it's still working it will be more susceptable in future electrical events and much more likely to lead to fried motherboards, disk boards, etc. And yes, definitely get a UPS (with monitoring). Starting price for such a unit (eg Sola 305) is about $180. You don't have backup and can't afford tape? At least setup rsync to perform regular data backups to a remote or second local machine. -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-= -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
