Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:00:34AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Unfortunately even drives in a dual power tray with redundany power from
separate UPS sources will occasionally have a power failure. Proved that
last month, the power strip in the rack failed, dumped all the load on
the other leg, the surge tripped a breaker. Had an APC UPS in my office
fail in a mode which dropped power, waited for the battery to trickle
charge to charge the battery a bit, then repeat. Looks to be losing half
of a full wave rectifier.
The point is that power failures WILL HAPPEN, even with good backups.
The goal should be to prevent excessive and avoidable data damage when
it does.
Shameless plug: for office use I changed from APC to Belkin on all new
units, they have had Linux drivers for some time now, and I like to
support those who support Linux.
Hasn't apcupsd existed for at least a decade? Works rather well for me.
Hard to imagine better linux/unix support than APC seems to have
provided so far.
I thought apcuspd was a third party project, sourceforce shows it as a
project. Didn't know APC was actually "providing" anything, is the
driver on the CD now? Sure wasn't on the APC CD I had, I did have it at
one time, but it didn't come with the UPS (at that time).
For some reason Belkin screms cheap junk to me. Maybe that's because
that is what you always see for sale with that brand on it. They may
have nice stuff that I just haven't seen because it isn't carried by
most stores.
You don't have Staples or Wal-Mart? Office Max did drop the UPS, the
local store manager said the issue was margin, hadn't had enough returns
on either brand to be meaningful.
--
bill davidsen <[email protected]>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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