USB Powerkey

[James Sentman]

On Jan 13, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Jerry wrote:

>
> So, after calling my wife back, and after instructing her how to  
> reset the DSL modem, I realized that the Database was corrupted as  
> well.  (Why does this only happen when I'm out of town?)  Luckily,  
> I had just made a copy of the drive just before I left, on a spare  
> XServe Sled.  She was able to swap the drive and house was well again.
>

We are especially interested in anything that causes the database to  
get corrupted! If this happens to anybody they should save me a copy  
of the messed up one and email it to me so that I can find out  
exactly what happened.

I've also added a feature in the latest beta (which  you guys dont  
have yet) that each night at midnight it backs up and zips up the  
database. It will keep the last 3 days in the folder with the  
database there for your automagically and then delete older ones. So  
you can always get at worst a 23 hour old one to go back to.

> I'm not sure if it's the modem or something else but after flawless  
> operation for 2 years, now I have dropouts with my connection that  
> only a hard reset will fix.  I'm hoping that I can at least reset  
> the connection automatically as well as other hubs and switches by  
> spending the money to upgrade the Powerkey to USB.
>
> If you think another path (such as Appliance modules) is more  
> appropriate, I'm up for suggestions!  I just think taking the power  
> lines out of the mix would be more reliable in the long run.

As long as the computer is working either one would work fine. I used  
to do the same thing with my ISDN line back in wisconsin. The modem  
would go dead every so often just randomly. So I had it setup to ping  
my website, and if it was not available to try to ping apple, and if  
that still didn't work to power cycle the router via an appliance  
module. Worked great.

-James