[ILUG] UPS for home use?

[Noel Carroll]

This sounds like a lot of effort and expense just to keep an uptime figure.
IMHO unless you have a permanent connection then there's no point in keeping
a firewall up.   While I'd like to keep my machine running permanently it'd
be just a waste when I'm not there.   Shut your system down when you're not
at home and not only will you save having to buy a UPS, you'll have less of
a leccy bill also. 

Just my 2 (euro) cents.

Noel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conor Daly [mailto:conor.daly at met.ie]
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 2:31 PM
> To: ilug
> Subject: [ILUG] UPS for home use?
> 
> 
> Any ideas on (cheap) UPS for home use?
> 
> I want to UPS my server and firewall to keep my uptime 
> (currently 27 days.
> Cool eh?).  I'm thinking of using whatever prog watches the 
> power supply to
> telinit into single mode, turn off everything bar the kernel 
> and the UPS
> watcher and come back up to multiuser mode once the power 
> comes back on.  I
> can presumably spin down the disks and minimise the 
> consumption that way.
> 
> The question is...
> 
> What sort of power consumption should I expect for a system 
> in this mode and
> what sort of UPS could I get to keep something like this up for say 12
> hours?  If the power is going to be off for more than this, I 
> could hire a
> generator or something.
> 
> Anyone got an old UPS out there?
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