On Nov 15, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Bryan Horstmann-Allen wrote: > +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | On 2010-11-15 10:21:06, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > | > | Backups. > | > | Even if you upgrade your hardware to better stuff... with ECC and so on ... > | There is no substitute for backups. Period. If you care about your data, > | you will do backups. Period. > > Backups are not going to save you from bad memory writing corrupted data to > disk. > > If your RAM flips a bit and writes garbage to disk, and you back up that > garbage, guess what: Your backups are full of garbage. > > Invest in ECC RAM and hardware that is, at the least, less likely to screw > you. > > Test your backups to ensure you can trust them.
The amount of resources invested trying to fix this by someone is probably more than the costs of some ECC RAM and a MB _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
