UPS Failed Me
Ditches Smoking gun!
My UPS had been giving me a battery warning for several months. It quit warning me. So did my computers. I came into a dark, silent and cold room.
UPS was bypassed and everything booted. Slackware started to give me weird errors and the final straw was a loss of several 100 emails. I went through all the recovery processes, and found I lost my work Virtual Machine. Several profanities were expelled. My backup is a couple of months old. I was able to get my data off the VM. I lost a couple of weeks worth of emails. The several hundred missing were found, just not by my mail client.
I don't recommend is ignoring that little "Replace Battery" LED.
-JJ