Jeff wood said:
> During my years as a 3000 SysAdmin, whenever I had a powerfail that lasted
> long enough for me to get to the hardware (which was far too often), I would
> immediately pull the power cord on the CPU(s) then turn off the power switch
> on all the external peripherals.  After the power came back on (and stayed on
> long enough for me to believe that it was staying on), I would power on all
> the peripherals and after they were spun up, back online, and such then plug
> in the CPU power cord again.  Not only did this prevent bouncing the system
> power like a yo-yo during XMgr recovery (which caused us to have to re-INSTALL
> an MPE/XL system at least once), but I also believe it was less stress on the
> hardware.
 
I think there are UPS units (a Tripp Lite we have, for instance) that do
exactly this.
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