On Power and Survival.
Saturday went really well. The T1 MUX UPS hack held up - we never lost phones over 2 hours and 20 minutes without power. And that means moving that PC off of the phone system UPS got us some extra time there.
Expected: We lost our servers 70 minutes in. Earlier than the 90 minutes we had last time, but whatever. We cleared off the smaller big UPS to handle just network equipment, then we plugged one power supply from the mail server and backup server into it. Unexpected: Those two servers were up for the entire time.
So with 4-year-old batteries and some creative shutdowns (we had 6 machines running instead of 10 last time), we managed to keep email and phones up and running for 140 minutes.
And it only took me all of last week to set up and manage.
ONWARD!
Expected: We lost our servers 70 minutes in. Earlier than the 90 minutes we had last time, but whatever. We cleared off the smaller big UPS to handle just network equipment, then we plugged one power supply from the mail server and backup server into it. Unexpected: Those two servers were up for the entire time.
So with 4-year-old batteries and some creative shutdowns (we had 6 machines running instead of 10 last time), we managed to keep email and phones up and running for 140 minutes.
And it only took me all of last week to set up and manage.
ONWARD!