From: jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham) Subject: Re: how safe is minix filesystem in power failure? Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 12:42:47 GMT
first off, thanks to all who have sent me info on low-priced UPSs. I'd
certainly never seen a UPS for $99 (US), but now know that they do exist
(remember, all I need is 3 seconds here...that's twice as long as the
longest outage I've seen here). in fact, I never knew that there were
UPSs that were that small...of course, the only UPSs I ever really saw
were intended for large equipment (networking equipment in this case)
that had to stay up, period....
the $99 is still out of my current budget, but the day my budget will
support it.....
In article <Apr.14.23.14.12.1993.657@geneva.rutgers.edu>
hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>If it's a single user machine, and the user is asleep (which is the
>case you describe), it's almost completely safe (assuming you're not
>doing things in the background).
I am. UUCP processing runs during the night to connect to a couple of
machines, and there are other things called under cron (e.g., calendar,
etc.).
anyways, thanks again everyone for the info on where to get UPSs cheap.
--jim