On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: >> >> The issue is, imo anyway, misbehaving software. >> Have a UPS and working on connecting the much larger one that I also have. >> What are you recommending for backup? I have an early model blu-ray writer >> and even 25GB of storage doesn't go very far! >> Drives are on Raid-10. >> External notification would be nice but I don't want even more 'noises >> in the night' >> so that won't likely be happening. >> May just reset this some time but I don't reboot the server often so it may have >> to wait for a bit. >> > > You should be able to catch misbehaving software with syslog, messages and > dmesg. > > I use "nut" to monitor UPSs and it has pretty good support for most things that > come out in the market. Not a tool I've used yet > > I am an advocate of both passive and active backups. Active backups can be > easy for small-time servers, like your own. You an even attach a drive to it, > use an encrypted container on it (or not), and mount it to do backups. But the > way most serious people od it is with "snapshots". There must be tools that > you can find to do it at zero cost. Haven't set it up yet but have been looking into backuppc - - - seems to do a good job of backup as far as I understand it. Very good point though!! Regards Dee