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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> 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