On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Bruno Friedmann <br...@ioda-net.ch> wrote: > On 11/05/2010 04:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On 11/05/10 10:35, Mark Luntzel wrote: >>> Just to clear it up for some people who seem to be confused about the >>> situation: I am not facing a data loss. The backup medium (a single >>> hard drive) has gone bad. I did not want to cancel a ~8.8T run with >>> ~400GB left on account of a single bad 1TB hard drive, but with no >>> recourse that is what I had to do. >> >> I think the real key thing to take away from this is, when you are >> talking datasets of this size, YOU MUST HAVE REDUNDANCY in your storage. >> Otherwise it's like playing Russian roulette with a revolver having an >> unknown number of loaded chambers. >> >> > > Phil, I would said playing Russian roulette without a missing ball :-) >
I do agree that a single disk is no good to store your only backup. However I would add a single raid array containing all of your backups also can destroy your data. I recommend against that as well. But the same can be said for a tape. The moral of the story is to have at least 2 copies of whatever data can not be lost on more than 1 single storage (disk, raid or tape). John John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
