Where I live we had 3 power failures in 2 days. Two were very short (less than a minute) and the one was about 30min in duration. During this time my FreeBSD 8.2 server got turned off (3 times). There was no problem powering it back up and everything was ok but I would now like to buy a UPS just in case this sort of thing happens again.
I was looking at getting this APC UPs:
APC BE700G-UK Power-Saving Back-UPS ES 700VA UPS W/ 8 Outlets
and using apcupsd with a USB cable to connect the UPS to my server.
My question is, is this APC UPS compatable with apcupsd and can it shutdown my server safely when the battery power of the UPS is about to run out? Run times not too important but I definitely want the server to shutdown properly so theres no filesystem corruption etc. When power is restored, does the server have to be manually powered backup again?
Thank you!
I was looking at getting this APC UPs:
APC BE700G-UK Power-Saving Back-UPS ES 700VA UPS W/ 8 Outlets
and using apcupsd with a USB cable to connect the UPS to my server.
My question is, is this APC UPS compatable with apcupsd and can it shutdown my server safely when the battery power of the UPS is about to run out? Run times not too important but I definitely want the server to shutdown properly so theres no filesystem corruption etc. When power is restored, does the server have to be manually powered backup again?
Thank you!