Keep it up? Backup?

[Paul Guba]

I would be interested in how you have this configured.  I have an APC 
1200 that my 8500 is plugged into.  The APC has a serial plug as does 
the Mac, and I have an adapter from Mac To PC serial.


On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 12:51 PM, Moyer, Steven wrote:

> 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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