RE: PSU failed - no control of house :(

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If it's just a PSU failure then you probably will still be OK - I've
had a
couple go and apart from being quite nasty smelling there's not been any
lasting damage done on the whole ... anyway, having lost loads of data in
the past for various reasons and knowing the pain I now have a backup media
server with 15Tb of storage in it that is powered up once a week to take a
robocopy /MIR snapshot of my "DVDs", "BluRays" and
"CDs" folders. I also
have a separate NAS with mirrored 2Tb drives that take a nightly snapshot
of
my "Public", "Software", "User" and
"Photos" folders...

The backup media server is basically "free" as it's built from
old
motherboards etc. and the drives are all the 1Tb units that used to be in
the main media server until they were rolled out to be upgraded to 2Tb
drives...

Phil


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
colinglover@xxxxxxx
Sent: 04 July 2011 08:37
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] PSU failed - no control of house :(

Well, ive never ever had a PSU fail before.  It's been a little noisy over
the last few days, but nothing that made me think there was a major
problem,
then this morning - server lost power.  how am i going to control light
tonight?  what about all the media that i now cant watch/listen to.

So i have spare disks, mobo, cables, just about everything other than a PSU
- what do you all do about backup servers/hardware? Doyou all have fully
redundant hardware?



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