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Hi, |
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David Talkington schrieb: |
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>Repeat after me as you write on the chalkboard 100 times (*): |
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>RAID is not a backup solution. |
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As I said, backups are not the issue. I have almost everything on CD. |
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What I don't have on CD is a working Gentoo system. I wish I had that on |
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a second mirror drive or as an image (for example via partimage). The |
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problem was that I didn't have a second drive big enough. |
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RAID would have saved me the hassle of installing from scratch again. |
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But looking on the bright side... I didn't use kernel 2.6 so far. Thus |
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this hard drive betrayel is the perfect opportunity to install a fine |
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tuned 2.6 system... |
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I guess I'll have to go shopping for two new drives then. |
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>It is uptime protection against a very specific set of possible |
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>hardware-related failures. Disk redundancy does nothing to protect you |
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>from deleted files, breakins, emerges gone awry, careless use of root |
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>privilege, scripting bugs, corrupted filesystems, improper shutdowns, ad |
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>nauseum. Make backups. If you have data that you truly care about, |
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>make offsite backups. |
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Well, disk redundancy would have saved me the hassle of reinstallation, |
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taken that only one drive screws up. |
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>Good luck ... -d |
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Thanks, |
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Tobias |
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