Nor a safe in case of a major fire.

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De : owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] De la part de Quartz
Envoyé : mardi 29 septembre 2015 06:35
À : misc@openbsd.org
Objet : Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

>It's gonna be behind a 3020j surge protector

A $20 spikebar will NOT protect this machine from a lightning strike that hits 
the pole in front of your house.


>> Take a different view: Mirrored drives and RAID are not really for data
>> protection, they're so you can keep operating in face of (some types of)
>> hardware failure.
>
> Indeed, but in reality doesn't it do both?

Not unless you have a very narrow definition of 'data protection'. RAID 
won't protect you against bad software corrupting your files, or 
accidental 'rm -rf'


> The files are currently strewn over a couple of machines all over the
> house. I intended on deleting them once pushed to the server

A single copy of your files is not a "backup" no matter what definition 
of the word you're using.

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