From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Piszcz Subject: Re: Changing chunk size Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:28:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <45D4955C.60008@tmr.com> <17876.60347.983953.748979@notabene.brown> <45D5E05E.4000706@tmr.com> <45D5FCC7.7000503@maine.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45D5FCC7.7000503@maine.edu> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Steve Cousins Cc: Bill Davidsen , Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > Bill Davidsen wrote: >> >> I'm sure "slow" is a relative term, compared to backing up TBs of data and >> trying to restore them. Not to mention the lack of inexpensive TB size >> backup media. That's totally unavailable at the moment, I'll live with what >> I have, thanks. > > You don't backup your RAID arrays? Yikes! For certain data this would be > fine (data that you can recreate easily) but it sounds like this isn't the > case for you otherwise you'd just wipe the array and recreate the data. There > are other modes of failure than just the drives themselves (file system > corruption for instance) so it is wise to do backups, even on "redundant" > systems. > > Good luck, > > Steve I agree here, RAID is no substitute for backups.