Re: Re: Queen City BBS Power Issues
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Aug 10 2024 07:49 am

I do backups, but you never know when a power loss might happen, and it
might also happen multiple times in a day. I doubt people are making
backups that frequently.

My system is backed up daily, in the wee hours of the morning, fully automated by a script run in a cron job. Very simple and quick, just an 'rsync' mirroring (of only changed items) to two different locations (one of them off-site).

So there's always a backup available that's less than a day old. Good enough for a "hobby" BBS... ;-)

:) My backups aren't that frequent, but I feel it's good enough. ;)
I've had times where the power circuit would break due to pulling too much power (running 2 air conditioners and some other things), and recently there was a day when it happened multiple times that day. The number of times it was happening was worse than last year, but I have a better idea now of what I can be running at the same time without tripping the circuit. I'm really glad I have my computers plugged into UPS units, or I would have been having to keep turning them back on after losing power multiple times.. ;)

Also, Murphy's Law seems to apply when going on vacation. Multiple times, my BBS has gone down while I was on vacaction, so I couldn't fix it until I got back. One of those times, in particular, my neighborhood apparently lost power the same day I left on vacation, and I heard it was due to a chipmunk chewing a wire somewhere nearby.

Nightfox
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Same people that don't do backups.

Had to double-check that the Synology was backing up the BBS VM. Looks like once a week, so not bad.

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Had to double-check that the Synology was backing up the BBS VM. Looks like once a week, so not bad.

... Phantom_Sysop

As long as it's not "Phantom_Backup" old friend. :)

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Side question: how can a Morse code key be so expensive? o_o

You're probably thinking of a Morse code key like Samuel Morse, the simple switch that works by an up and down motion.

Back in the late 1800's early 1900's if you were a telegraph operator as your trade you'd spend 12 hours shifts on send or receive and if send you'd spend 12 hours "pounding brass." They discovered carpal tunnel but it was called "glass arm" and people started to develop keys with a side to side motion. As time went on a company still in business today as Vibroplex came up with the semi-automatic key we call "bugs" for slang. Google a Vibroplex Bug and you'll see it's a bit of precision machining and assembly to make a working unit and that's part of the cost. It's also somewhat a supply and demand issue as there aren't that many needed. My gear is from the late 1970's as if it was taken care of it's a few hundred dollars/your lifetime as a user. These instruments sent the dit's at via a weight and spring mechanism and I like what I read about then in an old Air Force manual. "the bug wasn't invented to send code faster, but easier." So back to the telegraph office. These things were started in like 1904, and now you've got a bug! You can send 35 WPM fast without killing yourself or ending your career.

Now there's such a thing as a designer Morse code key as well, just precision parts and assembly and they are things of beauty as well. I however have expenses tied up in Vibroplex units that are works of art but also precision instruments in their own right.

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|11G|09> |10simply having the equipment on a UPS. Because it's a "hobby" makes it |07
|11G|09> |10not important enough for a $75 UPS?|07
I once lost a 600 dollar PC due to a lightning storm.
Luckily I have a backup laptop now.


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