proper shutdown of Vera 3

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I was unable to find anything useful after searching, but am happy to be shown otherwise.

As I am continuing to renovate my home’s infrastructure, I find myself shutting down my vera 3 occasionally. As I am doing rack rewiring, putting it on a UPS doesn’t always work for me.

I do not see /sbin/shutdown.

Is /sbin/poweroff the correct way to shut down Vera 3 prior to pulling the plug? Are any of the normal command-line parameters recommended?

If /sbin/poweroff is the right way to go, what I see happening is that all the front panel lights go off save for the power light. Is that the right time to cut power?

Thanks

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A normal unplug would suffice. No need for special shutdown procedures.

  • Garrett
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Thanks garrettwp. Let me rephrase my question - all other things being equal what’s “better” to do, /sbin/poweroff, or pull the plug?

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This describes a safe shutdown:

http://faq.mios.com/content/7/51/en/how-to-put-_unit_name_-3-in-battery-mode.html

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There is no reason to do anything fancy … just unlplug it !

This was a problem for computers, caused mainly because of the rotating magnetic disks and the long periods of time when a write operation had a file in an inconsistent state … but this is not a problem with the newer file systems used by newer operating systems … and virtually impossible with computers with solid state file systems like Vera.