My daughter woke me up this morning because the internet was out. Our network was offline.

Suspecting that the UPS in the gear closet had powered down (it had done this once before, I thought it was a fluke), I powered it up again. Yep. Took the whole network down rather than going into battery backup.

Checked on the NAS. NAS was mad because it hadn't been shut down properly. Also wanted more storage space. It's got bloody 28TB but apparently when you get within 20% of it it starts giving you warnings. So I told it to empty its recycle bins.

UPS killed everything again.

"Okay, time for a new UPS," I say to myself and power stuff back up, this time with the intent of powering down the NAS and leaving it down until the UPS shows up.

NAS COMES UP AS A CRASHED DISK ARRAY.

Yeah apparently it doesn't matter if you've got two drives of redundancy; if that file server is moving files around when the power goes out? It'll just garbage the whole thing.

Spent a couple hours replacing the UPS with a power strip and checking my options (Synology says "data recovery services") and then recalling what on the nAS wasn't straight-up backup. 90% of it is but I'd gotten complacent and was using parts of it as a file server because in 5 years it's never given me a problem.

Decide "fukkit if it's dead it's dead" and power it back up. This time it comes up without a complaint, mounts the file system and acts all happy.

So I am copying everything that isn't backup onto an external hard drive (I'm the kind of guy who has about 15TB worth of empty disks) so that as soon as I'm done I can power the dumb thing down and say "boy I sure learned my lesson!"

Change your batteries, kids. And fuck Cyberpower.