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Here is what am gonna do. Ill be keeping a log

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choasforages:
yeah, i had a 60mhz dell with a months uptime, then the power went out, but the way, how big of a ups would i need to power 5 desktop boxs and 3 monitors, not to mention a laptop. and howmuch would this thing cost, cuase im getting sick of these 1 second blips, that makes everything reboot, and im also sick of reseting clocks in my room, so they would go on it too.

voidmain:
I would not put the monitors on the UPS, only the main boxes (well you could put your main monitor on one so you have some light when the rest of the house is dark), but you generally want to limit the draw of power.  The more things you have plugged in to it the less time you will have during a power outage.

APC probably makes the most popular and cheapest small UPSes for home and small server room use although they do make very large ones too. Just look at the power consumption on all of your power supplies and devices that you plug in to it, add it all up and figure out what would be the best solution for you based on how long you want the equipment to stay powered up in the event of an outage.  You may want to go with two or three small units, or one larger one depending on the price and your needs. You can also hook up a serial cable and have your server do a clean shut down before the battery life runs out.

APC has some tips on their web site to help you figure it out: http://www.apc.com/

Kintaro:
Yes good point some windows people say

"Unix has good uptime, if its just sitting there"
which is true and false, they dont realize that its being used from the outside world!

voidmain:

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality / Bob:
where is your secondary... if the power was out how was it running?? generator?
--- End quote ---


The secondary is 400 miles from the primary, on a different network provider and if the power goes out in both places at the same time for an extended period of time then we've probably got bigger problems than a little thunderstorm.

choasforages:
is it safe to run a ups off a ups, like have a ups pluged into a ups and only have the serial cable pluged into the dell so it can shut everything off, or would that be a bad idea. cuase i was thinking that a lot of small ones would be a shit load cheaper then the 3000va/*i think*/ one that i saw

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