Do you have an UPS ? And a home lab? Awesome. This post is about configuring all your servers, raspberry pi's and even your gaming PC to shutdown gracefully in the event of a power outage.

The thing is that you can plug in the power cord for multiple devices in your UPS but, usually, an UPS comes with 1 data cable and, wait for it, a Windows application. With the USB data cable the UPS communicates with only one computer.

To connect all your computers to the UPS you are going to install Nut (Network UPS Tools)

gemini://sava.rocks/blog/installing-and-configuring-nut-network-ups-tools-for-your-home-lab/ 🔌 Installing and configuring NUT (Network UPS Tools) for your home lab

5 months ago · 👍 bavarianbarbarian, jsreed5, chirale

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@bavarianbarbarian I had all these on hand so why not build a small home lab / docker cluster

@jsreed5 share if you manage to setup your NUT server and clients · 5 months ago

I was looking for a solution just like this. Thank you for the write-up! · 5 months ago

i had a quite big setup in my earlier days when i was a sysadmin. but now i have a more simple setup. a gaming box, several laptops, tablets, external ssds for backup, some smart home shit. not that full blown nerdy stuff as i had. · 5 months ago