[olug] UPS

[Ben Dinger]

At work I've grown very fond of APC, in fact now we use them exclusively.  Their PowerChute software (which they give you free if you buy any SmartUPS) works very well with linux.  I have it in use on one Redhat 9 box, a couple of SuSE 9 and SLES 8 boxes, and a couple of SuSE 9.1 boxes.  Works great with all of them. 

If you are just using it on one box, a SmartUPS 420 would probably be enough.  I think we pay about $160 for them, we use them on seveal "critical" workstations. 

Also, I hear good things about the BackUPS 1000's.  They are priced very cheaply, and have gobs of runtime.  I just don't know if they include PowerChute or not. 

Finally, I *think* that TrippLite UPSes play nice with Linux.  We had several TrippLites that died in the big October storm that were 5 or 6 (!!!) years old.  

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:56:27AM -0500, William E. Kempf wrote:
> We recently had a power outage that caused my Linux box to shutdown
> abnormally.  Since then I've had some problems with my ReiserFS
> partitions.  I haven't done it yet, but I assume that an fsck will cure
> this and so I'm not overly concerned with that or data loss (I've got
> backups).  However, I suspect the issues are not coincidentally occurring
> after the abnormal shutdown, and thus I'm considering the purcahse of a
> UPS to prevent this in the future.  (The machine runs 24/7 and acts as my
> personal server, but there's nothing machine critical on there, which is
> why I've not considered a UPS until this point.)
> 
> So... I'm looking for advice on an inexpensive UPS system that works well,
> is reliable, and is compatible with Linux (i.e. it can trigger a safe
> shutdown prior to loss of battery power in cases that the electricity is
> out for an extended time).  Anyone have suggestions?
> 
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