"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It isn't my faith in a UPS. It is my real world knowledge. > > Further I will exert what I already replied to Stefan: > > city power->line conditioning generator->panel->plug->UPS->server > > You would have to have lightning handed by God to your server to have a > total power failure without proper shutdown in the above scenario. Which happens a couple times a year to various trusting souls. I suppose you're not a regular reader of Risks? Or a regular user of Livejournal for that matter? Analog is hard, let's go shopping. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster