Subj : Re: Queen City BBS Power Issues
To   : Gamgee
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Aug 10 2024 09:10 am

  Re: Re: Queen City BBS Power Issues
  By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Aug 10 2024 07:49 am

 Ni>> I do backups, but you never know when a power loss might happen, and it
 Ni>> might also happen multiple times in a day.  I doubt people are making
 Ni>> backups that frequently.

 Ga> My system is backed up daily, in the wee hours of the morning, fully
 Ga> automated by a script run in a cron job.  Very simple and quick, just an
 Ga> 'rsync' mirroring (of only changed items) to two different locations (one
 Ga> of them off-site).

 Ga> So there's always a backup available that's less than a day old.  Good
 Ga> enough for a "hobby" BBS...  ;-)

:) My backups aren't that frequent, but I feel it's good enough. ;)
I've had times where the power circuit would break due to pulling too much power (running 2 air conditioners and some other things), and recently there was a day when it happened multiple times that day. The number of times it was happening was worse than last year, but I have a better idea now of what I can be running at the same time without tripping the circuit.  I'm really glad I have my computers plugged into UPS units, or I would have been having to keep turning them back on after losing power multiple times.. ;)

Also, Murphy's Law seems to apply when going on vacation.  Multiple times, my BBS has gone down while I was on vacaction, so I couldn't fix it until I got back.  One of those times, in particular, my neighborhood apparently lost power the same day I left on vacation, and I heard it was due to a chipmunk chewing a wire somewhere nearby.

Nightfox
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