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Message 41685 - Posted: 20 Aug 2015 | 22:19:25 UTC

Is it possible to recover WU from a sudden power loss? I do have a UPS but my system still lost power and I lost all WU.

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Message 41686 - Posted: 21 Aug 2015 | 6:47:28 UTC - in response to Message 41685.

Is it possible to recover WU from a sudden power loss? I do have a UPS but my system still lost power and I lost all WU.

It happened to me two days ago. Less than a second of lost power and three (all) WUs on two PCs errored.

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Message 41717 - Posted: 31 Aug 2015 | 5:05:20 UTC

yes, interesting, that boinc client and particular projects have to have backups of some level - say hourly based or so or ability to recover work done from temp files.
would creators to work on it too please?

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