Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:45:22 +0100 From: Jim Marker <jemstone@ifx.net> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dbaker@neosoft.com Subject: Re: Smart UPS -- any experts out there? Message-ID: <34034061.C9A222E9@ifx.net> References: <XFMail.970826165136.conrads@neosoft.com>
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Conrad Sabatier wrote: > I'm seriously considering buying a UPS, as the power in my area seems > to be > prone to occasional "blinks" of a second or two. Someone mentioned > getting > a "smart" UPS that I could interface to FreeBSD to, for instance, > perform > an automatic clean shutdown on power failure. <<SNIP SNIP>> I have a triplitte internet 450 VA "dumb" UPS. It works great for small blips, and minor brownouts. I'm not sure you would want a smart ups to be shutting down your FreeBSD everytime you get a power blip if your power quickly comes back. Just pick what you really care about not going out on a blip and leave everything else on non-UPS power. I bet my FreeBSD system would stay up for a long power outage with 450 VA. Jim...
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