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If I were you, I'd get a larger UPS, use it to power your Linux-based NAS and your PC, but attach the communication to the NAS. Run apcupsd on the NAS, and set up the Windows client on your PC.

Thanks, Bitt!
I've already made the purchase of the 325VA and 500VA units, but I think your suggestion of running the communication to the NAS is a good one. The 325VA unit is dead simple, while the 500 has some shut down support. Unfortunately, the communication is via USB. The NAS is built in an ancient win95 box and the two pci slots are filled with graphics card and ethernet card. It doesn't look like I can easily add USB.
I see that apcupsd comes in a win2k server version... I think it might be a stretch to imagine it would work on my ME system, but I'll read through some of the docs and see what it says.

At the very least I'm protected from momentary power outages- even without control software.
In the most basic setup, long term outages would just drain the UPSs and the computers would suffer the fate that was previously afforded them.
Next higher would be to run the APC 'powerchute' software on the ME machine, leaving the NAS to suffer.
Scenarios beyond that will probably require some advanced fiddling, with the best options already in the above discussion.

It's pretty impressive what can be done with all of this stuff. Unfortunately my hodge-podge systems are outdated enough to be a challenge to integrate the fun stuff to.
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