17 Aug
2009
17 Aug
'09
2:31 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:29:57PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Chris G wrote:
All it needs is a time clock to power it up at 02:00, the BIOS set up to start up on power arriving and a cron job to shut the system down at 04:00, then the time clock removes power some time after.
Then one day the server boots up, decides to do a scan of the disks, takes its time, and power is cut half way through a backup. Or something.
The time clock could, say, turn on at 02:00 and turn off at 01:00. The backup system then has up to 23 hours to do whatever it needs to do before it closes itself down.
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Chris Green