Point taken. I guess my point was that my clients thought that RAID was enough to provide availability, but I've seen the backplane fail more often than a HD. In these cases, they were down for a day or two while they scrambled to get a cheap server in place and configured and restored to get the system back up and running.
Safe, offsite storage is important no matter what. I keep all of CULLYTech offsite as a backup. -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC Ted Roche wrote: > The biggest mistake I see clients make in this situation is thinking > that RAID == backup. It's not. RAID provides _availability_, so that a > single HDD failure doesn't take down the facility. They still need > backup. That's a separate thing. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
