I am so pleased that over the years I have seen so many of our fellow FoxHeads speak about taking backups so seriously. Ed once told me there are two kinds of computer users. This that have lost data, and those that will. I have lost data in the deep, dark past - before I knew about backups. I do not want to re-join the "those that will" club, so I hedge my bets pretty aggressively. Yet, for all the protection I give my data I still think there is more I could do. At some point it becomes a matter of "protection at what cost". That is a far cry from, "I can't afford protection at any price, so I will take my chances. Besides I have not lost a hard drive yet...", which I see too often.
Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Kevin Cully > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Heads up to Buffalo NAS owners > > > 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. > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
