On 9/25/10 7:52 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:33:05 am Mike Dwiggins did opine: > >> On 9/25/2010 6:02 AM, g wrote: >>> On 09/25/2010 06:50 AM, Mike Dwiggins wrote: >>>> This all started with a power out crash thanks to my Electrical >>>> >>>> Company. >>> you trust you electrical supplier and it their fault that you >>> do not use an ups? >>> >>> do you have a full backup that you can use to wipe drive, run a >>> full drive test, then restore your system? >>> >>> you can use rpm to run a check on all you have installed, but it >>> will not test configurations. >>> >>>> This one is weird! >>> not really. your drive got trashed. >> Well g, if I could afford a UPS that had a longer run time than two >> hours I would have it!. > Frankly, expecting a UPS to carry for 2 hours is an unreal expectation. Not even commercial installations demand that type of hold time. Those things take sealed L-A batteries weighing in at about 1/2 ton each (I work with a facility that has six of these.)If you want a 2 hour holdup time, be aware that it tends to cost real money > both at purchase time and at maintenance time. It is not going to be $350 > in pocket change, but more likely in the 10 grand range for commercial rack > mounted stuff. > Those things come in at about USD 50K each as well. They would hold your home PC setup for hours and hours. A Honda self start generator is much less expensive. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines