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#1 2008-08-20 13:50:15

sfabius
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UPS recommendation

I'm going to buy a UPS power backup for a desktop system. Can anyone recommend one that works well with arch? I see there are two packages devoted to UPS -- network-ups-tools and apcupsd -- the latter is for APC devices (and I did see the APC wiki) . Is it better to go with APC or something else? Googling tells me Belkin UPS are good, too. I'll probably spend $100-$150 on the device. thanks in advance.

(I hope this is the right forum for this question!)

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#2 2008-08-20 14:17:37

rson451
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Re: UPS recommendation

I'm a network engineer at a pretty good sized company (10k+ employees) and we have an APC 750 on every single switch and router on our network, around 700 devices.  They very rarely fail and are damn good at what they do.  Also when I was a sysadmin at my university, we had a small APC on each computer and a 750 for the server.  I'd recommend APC to anyone.

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#3 2008-08-20 15:21:45

ralvez
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Re: UPS recommendation

Yup. In addition to what rson451 says, there is a very nice software you can use along with your APC UPS  to control its interaction with your systems.
Eg: Shut down the system when there is only 2 more min. of power.
You can get it using "pacman -S apcupsd"

R.

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#4 2008-08-20 18:19:26

sfabius
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Re: UPS recommendation

OK, went with an APC. Thanks rson451 and ralvez. If all goes well then anyone reading this later can assume it worked well. If I have problems I'll post a followup!

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