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  1. NUT UPS by QuietLagoon · · Score: 1 · on ESR's Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS (ibiblio.org)
    I've been a user for the NUT UPS project for many years and I can attest to the fact that this whole area needs some major love. The NUT UPS folk have been fighting the good battle, trying to get some manner of a stable API into the UPS hardware world.

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    Let's do this!

  2. Re:I smell onions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 80,000lbs of Walnuts Purloined In Northern California

    Yep. News about this sort of NUT would be OK on Slashdot: http://www.networkupstools.org/

    Stolen walnuts no, unless it's done in a very very interesting or spectacular manner, or in an epic scale.

    The maple syrup one is somewhat interesting because it was a huge amount (in absolute quantity and also relative to the market supply), so in theory us nerd types could have more interesting discussions on how to steal such large amounts (and get away with it).

    Whereas this stupid nut job is just two truck loads.

      It's news if he does 100 truck loads (then it approaches the scale of the maple syrup heist - with the difference that the theft already got detected).

  3. HP by Thnurg · · Score: 3, Informative · on UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company?

    We have had good experiences with the HP R5500 XR. You may require a smaller and cheaper model like the R3000 or R1500 depending on your servers.
    These UPS are fully supported by NUT.

  4. Network UPS Tools by Yonatanz · · Score: 2, Interesting · on UPS Setup For a Small/Mid-Size Company?

    The open source world has NUT to offer (Network UPS Tools).

    We've been using it at work for all our critical servers. It works with pretty much all UPSes, and on pretty much any production OS, so you can use your existing servers and just buy whatever hardware the budget affords.

    The linux/unix servers and clients are excellent, and there is a reasonable Windows port for the client (which we've modified a little to suit our needs).

    The cost is just your sysadmin's time, as with all F/OSS solutions.

  5. Backup, RAID and a UPS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release

    Whatever you decide in terms of the filesystem, if you're serious about not losing data:
    * RAID your disks to protect yourself when one of them goes south. It will. Linux software RAID is perfectly serviceable for this.
    * Spend $50 or $100 for a monitorable UPS and run nut, so that Murphy doesn't have to prove to you that any filesystem can fail horribly if power is removed at exactly the right moment.
    * Back your data up. If it's not worth backing up, it's not worth keeping. Murphy will happily prove that to you, too, sooner or later.

  6. Re:Well of course you need UPSs, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Why Power Failures Can Always Lead To Data Loss

    FWIW, we're running a MGE Pulsar EXtreme that works well (enough) with the serial cable and NUT.

    I do however strongly second that you should investigate the possibilities of hooking up the UPS to your system(s) before purchasing it.

  7. Re:Get real. by kv9 · · Score: 1 · on Running a Home-Office Through a UPS
    If the server gets the signal, it does a clean shutdown, but my desktop doesn't, it has no way to know it's about to lose power.

    if your model is supported then this might help you.

  8. NUT: Network UPS Tools by RedHat+Rocky · · Score: 1 · on UPS Hacking in Hurricane Season?
    If you're running older small UPSes, you're probably running more that one machine as well. To allow networked machines to get UPS status info and shutdown when the going gets rough, look at NUT.

    Can be a chore to setup, but works with a variety of equipment and some good info there as well.