On 2010-10-31 7:00 AM, "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org> wrote:

Thanks for the flush information: even though this was a unique situation (every box in the rack was damaged, several beyond repair [including the backup server]), living in the middle of the tornado capital of the world means it could realistically happen again, so thats a really good one to know.

Sounds to me like you should make it a priority to get your servers communicating with your UPS's to perform safe shutdowns for extended power outages?