Re: Is My Data DESTROYED?!

[adfas asd <chimera_god@yahoo.com>]

--- On Sun, 10/25/09, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> wrote:
> > I am shocked at all who think that human error is so
> prevalent, and in
> > fact obviates the case for RAID as backup.  I've
> run Debian for 12
> > years on all my personal servers and remember
> literally only 3 or 4
> > cases in that time where I muggered something up and
> had to go to
> > backup.  There must be alot of fsckups out
> there...
> 
> Again, RAID is _not_ backup. "Backup" is something that can
> retrieve a
> file if you've deleted it or if you've accidentally
> overwritten it. RAID
> cannot do that.

You are not understanding the words what are coming out of my mouf...


> > Now a backup by cron is nice and all, but what if it
> silently fails in
> > some obscure way?
> 
> There are a couple of golden rules about backups. One such
> rule is that
> you should check at regular intervals that your backup is
> intact,

LOL
For terabytes?  Get real.  


> > This is one thing I like about RAID or ZFS, it lets
> > you know when anything's wrong.
> 
> No. They let you know when a limited set of errors
> conditions occur.
> Neither RAID nor ZFS will complain if you delete the wrong
> file or if
> you accidentally overwrite the show you've recorded
> yesterday. A good
> backup solution protects you from both.

Again, you are not understanding.