Joe,
But with power still in the phonelines you can still at least forward your phone to the answering service like it's a holiday or weekend. Now we have our little phone system (The Panasonic 4 line, wirelss 4000 series) on double back up so we can still use them for a little while. The system itself has a back up for the main unit that lasts about 20 min. to 1/2 an hour, and that is plugged into a UPS that is for the frontdesk AIO's and the phones. Meanwhile all the extentions are battery cordless, so they can run for a good while without power until they drain away.
At least this allows us to run for a few hours in the dark and we have had to once or twice. At least you can try and call folks and let them know not to bother coming in if your main AC server like machine is on a back-up power source to quickly get today's schedule and some phone numbers from. And two of our clients are laptops with batteries of their own anyway and the wireless router in on another UPS that is for the P2P server and Rx printer in the back. We have done it once or twice. Just a thought....
Paul
