Keep it up? Backup?

[Moyer, Steven]

Keep it up?  How about a UPS, with a MAC serial cable.  Size it to run a
couple hours and then cleanly shut the machine down when its standby power
is almost depleted.  I have several computers that haven't been down for two
years (except patches and updates) using this method.  If I ever do have a
long power outage, I will get a page warning me that a hard power off is
about to occur (the computer sends the message via e-mail to a text paging
service).

I like to use about 1400VA per server (more if it has RAID).

smoyer

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Brandt [mailto:rbrandt@sbdsl.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:18 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Keep it up? Backup?



1) This Mac has a 'soft' power key.  This means that I cannot rely on it to 
automatically boot up after a power failure.  Any suggestions?

Rob

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