The UPS will keep it running long enough to switch to another power source.

I'm in the same boat. Got all the equipment in for my whole house solar installation and will be re-routing circuits to the new panel as soon as I have time so will have to turn all the power off for the duration of that.

I've got an Anker power station that should run my stack for about 4-4.5 hours by itself and can run it indefinitely while the sun is out while hooked into the PV panels. Those are (currently) independent from the new installation I'm about to start.

My UPS's are also LiFePO4 models and can add an additional ~45 minutes of uptime. So hopefully 5 hours is enough to avoid having to shut anything down.

Do y'all not reboot after kernel/firmware updates?

I have one of those Anker Powerstations (C1000), along with a comically large portable solar panel (400watt). That thing is pretty amazing. I bought it after a 3 day power outage, for safety due to winds.

I just bought a much longer solar-power cable so I can drag the panels/battery around more conveniently.

Rolling distros don't need to

I'm guessing OP probably doesn't have a petrol/diesel generator handy :p

Are you sure? I've used Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server, I had to reboot. And Cannonical charges money for this feature in Ubuntu.

An extension cord running to another room would be enough if the minor electrical work only needs a circuit to be switched off.

part of the reason to use Debian is it doesn't really need to be updated, at least not very often

Having high uptime is not the flex you think it is

You shouldn't have uptime higher than 60 days

It needs to be updated at least several times a year...

You absolutely do need to reboot

depends on your use case

home automation server that doesn't connect to the internet? nah

media server that only occasionally gets connected to the internet? maybe

anything else that regularly connects to the internet, definitely

They absolutely do. There’s nothing special about them vs normal distros. Hell rolling ones probably get new kernels more often and you can only live patch so much. Some updates just hard need a reboot to take effect.

up.. date?
what does that mean?

Maybe they're kexec-ing.

generator

small uninterruptible power supply could be pretty useful

My UPS just runs on a lead battery. It lasts long enough to run my router and server for a few minutes and cost less than 100€.

I got it when we had electrical issues and using the ironing board would trip the main fuse.

Yeah, I was thinking a UPS wouldn't hold a load up long enough to do electrical work, but I guess it depends on the nature of what needs to be done

If one is not enough just daisy chain two or three of them.

(Don't do this)

We had some very large UPSes at work that would be able to keep a server up for hours, but they're also so heavy it would probably cause the floor in my living room to collapse :p

Just because you updated packages , doesnt mean those new ones are in use. Not sure what apt has, but with zypper you do a zypper ps -s and it shows you what installed packages are waiting on a reboot or service restart before they are in play... Otherwise kernel is just accessing old package libraries.

Say what now?

Laughs in kexec

Just wear rubber boots and gloves and leave the electricity on

uptime should be handled by the kernel, so a kexec "soft-reboot" would still reset the uptime.

Well proxmox is based on Debian so it's technically included in the original meme

Ah, this brings back memories of flashing Android with various kernels and ROMs.

Ups says it has 8 minutes of runtime, chop chop, get going!

Yeah these days a high uptime is a mark of shame, not a badge of honour.

I was vacuuming and accidentally pulled the cord on a 3 month uptime.

"Shutdown off"

Almost 44 days last year before I needed to reboot for an update:

All your base distribution are belong to

I’ve been running the same AIX kernel since 1993, and my ftp server is still running fine. I don’t know what the rest of these assholes are complaining about.

Yeah, that's what I've got, and I really like it.

I'm going to join þe chorus about getting a UPS. Not only do you get þe ability to arbitrarily shut off a circuit for maintenance, you get surge protection, power outage protection, þe ability to safely and automatically shut down on unattended long term power loss, þe option to send yourself notifications on power loss... þere are many compelling features tp have even a small UPS. Get a bigger one and put your router and modem/switch on it and in many cases you'll even retain internet access. Modern UPSes come in a variety of options and can be quite affordable.

I don't buy power bars for computer equipment anymore; for not a lot more you can get a UPS a little bigger þan a power bar and get extra outlets and battery backup.

My current uptime has survived 2 power outages that lasted about 10 minutes each.

"Openup on't"

Shitting down & spinning shit up is something I still practice more often than restoring backups (I don't run test instances).

shutdown off

In English, that's "shut down".

I don't follow CVEs: when was the last time a remotely exploitable kernel bug was a concern? Ignoring the fact that this is a home server and they likely care about uptime a lot more than exploitation on their LAN.

Generally I expect kernel bugs to be LPEs so updating user space would probably be sufficient for most home servers

Hmm, not my proudest moment.

16:09:15 up 1031 days

Private server, though.

I tried telling this to my manager for years. He saw it as a "X days since we last had a problem and needed to reboot the server" and took pride in it.

We finally shut it down at over 5 years of uptime. Some docker containers had been running for 4 years straight.

Yes, that means what you think it does concerning update policies. Yes, the server and some containers were exposed to the internet. No, the backups were never tested.

I after fixing my server I'll get a ups as well. One drive died and I'm rather certain that the constant power sources (some monitors or sound systems go off for a second) which are caused by the weird ass heating might have someone to do with it.
Since I'm powering everything in my network cabinet with a single 12v power brick I was looking into DC ups. Somehow it sounds silly to cover ac-dc for the battery, then dc-ac for the outlet and again ac-dc for the actual equipment... Turned out those are much more expensive. Probably to little demand :(

Ironically, this was one of the primary reasons I have a UPS on everything. The uptime must grow.

i know the OP was about server, but just curious how long is every one's uptime on laptop / desktop?

Yes