G+_Jon Klinkefus Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Regarding kh294, and UPS/NAS combination. Don't be like the 80% of people who invest in disaster recovery technology, and fail to ever test it! If you have a new UPS/NAS combination without any crucial data on it yet, take advantage of the time to test out some outage scenarios, irregardless of whether you have a backup, or online UPS. If you don't have the NAS to spare, use a junk PC, etc. See if the products you (or Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ) deftly picked out perform as advertised. I worked in small office tech. for 15 years, and lost count of the number of times I ran across folks who had never tested recovery hardware, software, etc. that they had put a lot of money into. Infamous quotes.... "Oh, crap, I thought that would shut down." "Dang, we never remade the recovery disk after the crash." "Well, why was the battery light not on like that before?!" "Oh...those are the protected outlets!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Excellent point... My gold standard is the "plugs out" test... Have the device in stressed-operation, then d/c the power. See if it comes back as expected. This is why the gear in my setup doesn't change that often. (Once I get gear that meets my requirements, I stay with it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Tyger Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 I always do a UPS test. Also to make sure enough of the infrastructure stays up so I can get notifications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Tyger Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 The best way to test is throwing the breaker. That way you don't get surprised with any equipment that were supposed to go off but doesn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Derek Holmes Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 I am curious what your thoughts are about using the"stop writing to disk" features of my QNAP TS251+ rather than having the NAS shut down? I prefer to not have to manually restart the NAS every time the power goes out, but if there is risk to the NAS of being damaged by using this I will set it to turn off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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