On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:14:19AM +1100, Adam W wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Although, it does protect you from a blown motor in one of the drives -
> without losing a day/week/months data.
True, but at least you can recover most of your data. A corrupted RAID
array without backups means you're stuffed.
RAID increases availability but reduces reliability.
> Then again - you may find your tapes are buggered and cant retrieve any
> data off that either!
That's why you test them regularly.
Cheers,
John
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