gariac;230328 Wrote: > BTW, I'm using software RAID. This is relatively cheap, and the backup > is of course automatic.
no, no, and once again NO! RAID is not a replacement for a backup. Yes it will protect against a drive going south if you have RAID-1 or higher, but it is NOT a backup replacement. What happens if your OS takes a dump and corrupts files or the file system? All drives are then effected, meaning you are screwed. What if you delete a bunch of files by accident (done this myslef)? You are screwed. What is you overwrite files by mistake (this is worse than deleting as there aren't tools to recover from this one)? You are very screwed. RAID increases the availability of your data by getting round down time, but you should still have an offline copy somewhere that can be used to recover. -- funkstar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38688 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
