Re: ftp server outage

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 17:00, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> Our power went out last night and didn't come back until this morning.
> When it went out, I discovered that our main UPS had died.  (The
> batteries in it were long overdue for replacement.)  The spare UPS
> that I had sitting here wasn't big enough to handle the load of the
> ftp server along with everything else, so I couldn't get it running
> (without plugging it straight into the wall or something).
> 
> I just got back from Sam's...  I picked up another 1.1kVA APC to use
> for a while to get the rest of the servers up, so the ftp server
> should be available again this evening.  Tomorrow I'll get new
> batteries for the big UPS (and another one that I've been sitting on
> for a while), so I'll probably have everything down for a bit again
> while I rearrange things.

Don't toss that old UPS. You can buy exact replacement gell cells at
Bell City Battery Manufacturing in Belleville cheaper than a new UPS. In
this respect an UPS is just a heavy flashlight. They're four blocks east
of the fountain and seven blocks south. 234-7272. Highly recommended.

--Doc


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