[rescue] UPS Recommendations - A True Story

Greg A. Woods rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Jul 2 15:09:52 CDT 2001


[ On Monday, July 2, 2001 at 12:46:12 (-0700), Devin L. Ganger wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] UPS Recommendations - A True Story
>
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:30:02PM -0700, Brian Dunbar wrote:
>  
> > I'm in an optimistic mood today (and also being 1/3 of the way through a
> > long file restore) I thought about all those fancy UPS we have in place
> > (and how well they worked last month) and let 'em go for it.
> 
> Why, oh why, didn't you unplug the UPSen from the wall???

That's what I was wondering too.  That is another of the reasons to have
a UPS in the first place -- so that you can physically isolate
*everything* from anything (but maybe earth ground) when dangerous
circumstances arise.

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