ncarver;406794 Wrote: 
> I think that mistakenly deleting files is one of the dangers of RAID
> being used for at least temporary backups.

It bears repeating - RAID is not backup.  Not even "temporary" backup. 
Backup means having another set of data independent of the first.  You
don't get this from RAID.  I don't mean to sound patronizing - It's
clear to me that you understand this, but I worry that others reading
might not.

Mistaken deletions are the main reason I don't like RAID for my
situation.  Loss of data is far more likely to come from fat fingering
than it is from hardware failure.  My nightly rsync to another internal
HD gives me at least a few hours to detect and undo any mistakes before
they propagate to the second drive.  With RAID I get no such grace
period.


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