Of course in a situation like this, copying 1TB of data to an external hard drive is nearly impossible. Then again, losing this data is mearly an inconvienience not a money loser.
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:10:37 -0500, Anthony Vito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All of this was prompted because we just had an HDD failure and lost > > about a month's worth of unarchived baby pictures; redundancy is the > > primary issue. > > For the last time... RAID is _NOT_ a backup solution. It's a data > visibility solution. RAID allow the computer to keep on working even > if one of the drive dies. Yes, you get redundancy, but other HUGE > problems of data loss still exisit. > > 1) What do you do when you accidentally delete something important?..( > rm -rf * ... DOH ).. It's gone on all the disks with no way to get it > back except a slim slim chance with some recovery software. > > 2) What if a program corrupts a file, or a set off files? They get > messup on the whole RAID array. That "program" could be a malicious > virus. > > RAID is nice for companies where a server going down means losing > money and time. For the average home user, a nice automated daily > backup plan is the best medicine. An external harddrive in an > enclosure is a great way to accomplish this. > > ( NOTE: both problems above can be solved by using a concurrent > versioning system such as CVS or subversion to store all your files... > but is kindof annoying to deal with all the time ) > > -- > Anthony Vito > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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