Backups and UPSs

[mdlbear]

Meanwhile, my disk test is finally on its final write pass. At roughly 3.5 hours per pass, I'm guessing sometime between 2 and 3am. (ETA: 03:56:13, as it turns out) I'm really enjoying having an OS that's stable enough that you can run a two-day I/O-bound process without having to worry about anything more likely than a possible power failure. (Not entirely unlikely, though -- we've had two at work so far this season. There's a reason why my machines are on APC UPSs.)