On 25/08/2019 21:47, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 25/08/2019 19:34, dennis@home wrote:
On 25/08/2019 14:50, Scott wrote:

As an aside, could a power cut ever damage a modern computer (say if
you happened to be installing an update or defragmenting a disc when
it happened)?


Yes but so could a hardware fault or a software crash.
This is why you need a good data backup system.
It will allow you to recover from a corrupted disk caused by anything.

Also UPS systems fail too.

Decent servers have two power supplies.

Wise IT people connect one to the raw mains, and the other to the UPS,
so if either fails it keeps going.

Andy

Decent systems have more than one server and more than one UPS.