On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:24:00PM +1100, David wrote:
> I went to the trouble of installing a hardware RAID card (anyone want to
> buy it?). When the data on one drive was corrupted by a drive fault, the
> other drive dutifully mirrored it so I had TWO corrupted sets of data.
Software RAID will do that too.
> The moral of this story is: backup with RAID is better than RAID without
> backup.
ITYM backup *without* RAID is better than RAID without backup.
Cheers,
John
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I expect them to say "the data is on a RAID, therefore you don't need
backups". Because they are all fucking idiots.
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