I wounder how important it is to have an UPS for a server. Everyone seems to use UPS for servers but not for client computers.
In example, if I use Windows Small Business Server on a small network for Active Directory and storing the users home directory for backup is it still useful with an UPS, why? If a power outage happens, shouldn't the filesystem handle that, so no files are corrupted? And in this case I think the problem is the same on the clients.
I do understand that it can be useful on servers when changing the server configuration, but that is done during a very limited time and it sounds like it's more worth to do good backups before the configuration.
And when thinking about database transactions, I think that the transaction logic in the database management system should handle it, that's what transactions are for.
And finally, if an UPS is used, doesn't the server applications need to have support for it? outherwise the power outage is only delayed? Or is it only the operating system that needs the UPS?
