On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:22:25 -0800 Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@surfnaked.ca> wrote:
> We had a power outage the other day, and when I tried to restart the > machine it would get past the Grub screen, then sit there forever with > a screen that was blank except for a blinking cursor. It took about > half a dozen tries before it finally continued the boot process from > there. I seem to recall that this happened last time we had a power > outage too. For now I think I'll just keep my backups current, and > come the day it decides not to boot anymore I'll just replace it. You might also look into an uninterruptable power supply (UPS). These include surge protection. There are several daemons available in Debian that support one or more UPS vendors, e.g. apcupsd. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
