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Commander McLane wrote:
There is of course one drawback to this whole process, as long as I'm living in remote East Africa: The external HD needs its own power supply. I am not sure what would've happened in case of a power cut while I was booted from it, but I have an idea that it wouldn't have been good.
UPS to the rescue? (Uninterruptible Power Supply, not the courier..)
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Micha wrote:
Commander McLane wrote:
There is of course one drawback to this whole process, as long as I'm living in remote East Africa: The external HD needs its own power supply. I am not sure what would've happened in case of a power cut while I was booted from it, but I have an idea that it wouldn't have been good.
UPS to the rescue? (Uninterruptible Power Supply, not the courier..)
Trouble is that the locally available UPSs give you about half an hour of battery power, which isn't nearly enough to finish a backup session.

But it would of course be enough to cancel the session and shut down the computer safely. So actually, yes, my periphery equipment should be on UPS. Why isn't it? Same reason I only seriously contemplated my backup habits after the HD crash, I suppose. :roll:
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